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Commercial diving/Handling Diving Trauma and Medical Emergencies

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Relevance: Scuba diving, Surface supplied diving, Surface oriented wet bell diving.

Required outcomes:

  1. Describe signs and symptoms of and treat decompression illness and pulmonary barotrauma
  2. Discuss the signs and symptoms of and treatment for the various types of gas toxicity associated with diving
  3. Discuss the causes, signs and symptoms of and treatment of Anoxia and Hypoxia
  4. Discuss the causes, signs and symptoms of and treatment of Hypercapnia
  5. Discuss the causes, signs and symptoms of and treatment of environmental emergencies (drowning, hypothermia, hyperthermia, seasickness, dehydration etc.)
  6. Discuss the causes, signs and symptoms of and treatment of Shock
  7. Describe the methods to control bleeding
  8. Describe the signs and symptoms and the treatment of fractures and dislocations
  9. Discuss trauma and trauma management in the marine/underwater environment

Decompression illness

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Pulmonary barotrauma

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Decompression sickness

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Gas toxicity

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Nitrogen narcosis

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Oxygen toxicity

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Hypercapnia

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Carbon monoxide toxicity

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Hydrogen sulfide toxicity

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Hypoxia and anoxia

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Environmental emergencies

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Drowning

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Hypothermia

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Hyperthermia

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Seasickness

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Dehydration

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Shock

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Control of bleeding

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Fractures and dislocations

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Trauma in the marine environment

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