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What & Where
The Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, recently hosted a dive medicine and safety conference. A well-known oceanographic institute, the CICESE is home to specialties that require diving researchers.
Why & When
A important aim of the September 22-23 conference was to answer the needs of this community in updating standards, knowledge and improving safety. Topics included: a brief history of diving in the CICESE, physiology of diving, fitness to dive, diving accidents, DCSand AGE, the importance of oxygen as first aid in dive accidents, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, return to dive after treatment, drugs and diving, asthma and diabetes, flying after diving, diving with oxygen-enriched air, O2/ CO2 / CO & N2 toxicities, introduction to technical diving, and more.
Who
The conference speakers were:
- Dr. Cuauhtemoc Sanchez, Director for DAN Mexico & DAN Latin America, Hyperbaric & Subaquatic Medicine;
- Dr. Cesar Soto, Hyperbaric & Subaquatic Medicine, Director of Hiperbárica Cancun;
- Sergio Ramos, Oceanographer, NAUI Instructor and key in all the logistic and organization of the conference; and
- Daniel Millikovsky, DAN Instructor Trainer and ASHI First Aid and CPR Instructor Trainer NAUI Course Director, NAUI Nitrox Instructor, NAUITEC MGB & O2 service Instructor, NAUITEC Technical and Trimix Diver.
The conference was lively, enthusiastic and productive, according to reports. Attendees numbered approximately 60 and included individuals with a wide spectrum in backgrounds, including doctors, nurses, paramedics, scientific divers, commercial divers and recreational divers.
After the conference on Sept. 24-25, Daniel Millikovsky taught 43 students in the the DAN Oxygen Provider course ? ?More new providers in the field!? Millikovsky said.
?The entire conference was an excellent experience and with no doubt will be held again in 2005, Said Millikovsky. ?Learning is a lifelong process, and events like this are very important to inject new information to improve safety, know our sport better and help put aside bad habits.?
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