Hyperbaric Medicine Courses
PADI Chamber Awareness Course
Course Duration
1 day
Price
£100.00
Max Depth
40metres
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Diver Medic Course
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Course Description
The purpose of the Orientation to Recompression Chambers Distinctive Specialty is to provide a safe and well supervised introduction into the work of a hyperbaric facility.
What You Learn
The course is designed to familiarise divers to the facilities available, the procedures used, problems and hazards associated with a recompression chamber and possible treatments available.
Course Higlights
Course participants are expected to take part in a recompression chamber dive to a maximum depth of 40 metres.
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PADI prerequisites
Pre-requisites:
* PADI Advanced Open Water (or equivalent qualification)
* Minimum 18 years of age
* Participants must hold a current diving medical
HSE PART IV - Recompression Chamber
Course Duration
1 day
Price
£200.00
Max Depth
40metres
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HSE PART IV - Recompression Chamber
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Course Description
The HSE Part IV Recompression Chamber approved Professional Scuba qualification is required by all professionals who work underwater in a professional capacity, such as: filming, actors & presenters, commercial divers, marine biologists, marine archaeologists and anyone working underwater.
What You Learn
As a member of a dive team, a professional diver will be expected to have knowledge of the pre-dive procedures of a two compartment recompression chamber.
Each member of a professional dive team will be expected, under supervision, to have knowledge of the functions and procedures for acting as an attendant inside a two compartment recompression chamber.
As a diver, the participant will undertake a chamber dive to 40 metres. This dive is to ensure that layout, functions, uses and limitations of recompression chambers are understood by the diver and that the symptoms and effects of nitrogen narcosis are experienced.
As a member of a dive team, a professional diver will be expected to have knowledge, under supervision, of the functions and procedures for operating a two compartment recompression chamber.
As an inside attendant in a recompression chamber, each participant will gain knowledge of the conduct of a therapeutic recompression. Through a classroom simulation, under the instruction of the recompression chamber supervisor, participants will be shown:
* How the condition of the patient during therapy is assessed and monitored to ensure recovery is progressing satisfactorily
* How the results of observations are reported regularly to the recompression chamber supervisor.
The participants will be trained in the post-dive recompression chamber checks and maintenance. They will be demonstrated on how a recompression chamber is made ready for the next dive including:
* The appropriate actions to be taken in accordance with hygiene and maintenance procedures, with the aid of an authorized check list.
* Recompression chamber shut down, in accordance with operational procedures with the aid of an authorized check list.
Course Higlights
The chamber familiarisation involves:
* Pre-Dive preparations
* Underwater deployment
* Chamber dive to 40 metres
* Handling Emergency Procedures
* Recompression Chamber Operation
Post-Dive procedures
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PADI prerequisites
This course is only for participants of the HSE part IV Professional Scuba Diver Course.
Diver Medic Course
Course Duration
3-4 days
Price
£300.00
Max Depth
18metres
Made Private
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HSE PART IV - Recompression Chamber
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Course Description
The London Diving Chamber Dive Medical Course has been put together to create a practical dive medicine course that is ideal for Dive Guides and Dive Instructors. The course is particularly useful for people who work, or intend to work in remote locations or on liveaboards.
What You Learn
The course will give the participants:
* Guidelines on using a recompression chamber
* Information on the many issues concerning Decompression Illness
* Information on other Non-Decompression Illness Dive Medicine
* Practical Field Medicine Training
* CPR Training
Course Higlights
50metre Dry Dive, 10 Lectures from 10 experts in a variety of fields in Dive and Hyperbaric Medicine.
More explicitly, the course takes an already good working knowledge of dive medicine and takes it to a practical, applicable and life-saving knowledge. It is a course that could be highly recommended to any dive professional or recreational diver.
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PADI prerequisites
Minimum qualification level: Divemaster / Dive Leader (or equivalent)
