Commercial Diving Accident Management
Commercial Diving Accident Management is organized by Wound Care Education Partners (WCEP).
Course Overview:
This course is a one-hour video lecture course. It consists of educational slides with an audio recording of Dr. Keith Van Meter, MD as he delivers the lecture. Dr. Van Meter discusses the utility of immediate, short, intervally-spaced hyperbaric oxygen therapy in resuscitative treatment of acute wounds and trauma.
Four commercial diving accident cases are presented to illustrate that severely injured patients, expected to need trauma center management, may be successfully treated in remote, medically-primitive, pre-hospital settings and be definitely stabilized by oxygen therapy in the field. Immediate post-injury hyperbaric oxygen therapy at the site of the accident and continuation of the same at short intervals until wound stabilization is key.
Goals of this course are to:
• Discuss high-yield patient recovery results following immediate, short-interval hyperbaric oxygen administered at accident site and upon arrival for entry into hospital’s chain of care.
• Demonstrate that successful hyperbaric oxygen therapy, in effect, “DOPES” (delivered oxygen pressure establishing survival) the plasma with enough dissolved oxygen to promote traumatic reperfusion injury resolution.
• Present laboratory animal verification by randomized, controlled studies of similar, very favorable recovery as described in clinical human injury resuscitated by hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.