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The 63rd DAN Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine course, set for Aug. 11-15 in the Florida Keys, offers a unique education to divers in an elegant setting. In a longstanding record of cutting-edge continuing medical education events, the DAN course has been developed on an evidenced-based foundation in the core concepts of diving and hyperbaric medicine. Continuing education credit for both physicians and nurses is available for the entire course.
Based at the Cheeca Lodge and Spa on Islamorada, the course includes topics such as basic dive medicine, fitness to dive, diagnosis, aspects of technical diving, and treatment of diving-related medical disorders such as decompression sickness, high-pressure nervous syndrome and marine animal injuries.
The DAN course will also review recent scientific research in hyperbaric medicine including:
- established and emerging indication for hyperbaric oxygen treatment,
- the molecular mechanisms of hyperbaric oxygen and
- hyperbaric oxygen off-label applications.
The DAN course goes beyond the usual dive medicine topics to discuss challenges to human physiology posed by venturing into austere environments including:
- human physiology involved in the emerging sport of breath-hold diving and
- physiological barriers of diving.
These concepts will be reinforced by case reports from the DAN Medical Services Call Center Quality Assurance archives, examples from ongoing research at the Duke University Medical Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology and from the personal experience of the faculty.
Course faculty includes renowned dive medical personnel featuring these speakers:
- Peter B. Bennett, Ph.D., D.Sc. — executive director, Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society; founder and past president, Divers Alert Network; chairman emeritus, International DAN; emeritus professor, anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.
- Petar J. Denoble, M.D., Ph.D — senior research director, Divers Alert Network, Durham, N.C.
- John J. Freiberger, M.D., MPH — course director; assistant medical director, Divers Alert Network; assistant professor, anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.
- Michael Ott, M.D. — pulmonologist/intensivist, Melbourne Internal Medicine Associates; medical director, Hyperbaric Oxygen Program, Health First Health System, Melbourne, Fla.
As an added educational opportunity for divers, DAN Training will host two evening classes: the DAN Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries and DAN Advanced Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries courses on Aug. 13 and the DAN On-Site Neurological Assessment for Divers course on Aug. 14.
For information on all course fees and accommodations, click here or contact Cindi Easterling at +1-919-684-2948 ext. 610 or ceasterling@dan.duke.edu.
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