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A Year (or so) in Review: Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine
Presented by: Eric Johnson, MD
Emergency
Medicine
of
Idaho,
PA.
Director,
Hyperbaric
Medicine.
NAUI
#
22649
Boise, ID
ejohnson@emidaho.com
NOTE: Additional information from the UHMS meeting in June 2005 will be presented during the
meeting, but printing deadline did not allow time to include in this syllabus.
What's Changing/Evolving in Diving & Diving Medicine?
1)
Pre-Dive
a.
Learning tools
i.
Much improved tools for learning.
ii.
Computer based. Web tools.
b.
Fitness to Dive
i.
More emphasis on fitness/fitness to dive.
ii.
Who should be allowed to dive?
1.
Controversial areas: asthma, diabetes, epilepsy.
2.
Diving Medical Docs.
c.
Web-Diving
i.
Dive sites:
1.
www.diversalertnetwork.org
(Diver's Alert Network)
2.
Dive Organizations:
a.
PADI
www.padi.com
b.
NAUI
www.naui.org
ii.
Medical sites:
1.
www.uhms.org
(Undersea Hyperbaric Medical
Society)
2.
www.wms.org
3.
http://faculty.washington.edu/ekay
4.
http://scuba-doc.com
5.
http://www.scubamed.com/
d.
Travel concerns
i.
Travel medicine concerns.
ii.
MVA's...still most common injury.
iii.
Terrorism/Airports and gear.
2)
Dive-Related
a.
Equipment
i.
Masks:
1.
Wider, broader visual field.
2.
Heads up Displays (HUD) of computer data.
