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

Pulmonary barotrauma

Decompression sickness

Gas toxicity

Nitrogen narcosis

Oxygen toxicity

Hypercapnia

Carbon monoxide toxicity

Hydrogen sulfide toxicity

Hypoxia and anoxia

Environmental emergencies

Drowning

Hypothermia

Hyperthermia

Seasickness

Dehydration

Shock

Control of bleeding

Fractures and dislocations

Trauma in the marine environment

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