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[edit | edit source]

Pulmonary barotrauma[edit | edit source]

Decompression sickness[edit | edit source]

Gas toxicity[edit | edit source]

Nitrogen narcosis[edit | edit source]

Oxygen toxicity[edit | edit source]

Hypercapnia[edit | edit source]

Carbon monoxide toxicity[edit | edit source]

Hydrogen sulfide toxicity[edit | edit source]

Hypoxia and anoxia[edit | edit source]

Environmental emergencies[edit | edit source]

Drowning[edit | edit source]

Hypothermia[edit | edit source]

Hyperthermia[edit | edit source]

Seasickness[edit | edit source]

Dehydration[edit | edit source]

Shock[edit | edit source]

Control of bleeding[edit | edit source]

Fractures and dislocations[edit | edit source]

Trauma in the marine environment[edit | edit source]

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