Overview

This short course in dive and hyperbaric medicine is taught in Panama City.  This is a subset of the training given to the full-fledged UMOs, and includes a 40-week Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) course.

Topics Covered

Introduction to Dive Medicine

• Intro to military diving

• Military chamber operations

• Decompression chamber familiarization

• Decompression illness (DCI) theory

• Dive physicals

• Abnormal Gasses

• Marine Animals

• Drowning and swimming induced pulmonary edema (SIPE)

• Underwater hazards

• Dive telemedicine

• UMO Consult guidance

• Long term effects of diving

• Aviation DCS

• Saturation diving

• Diving at altitude

UHMS Short-Course

• History of hyperbarics

• Hyperbaric physics

• DCI and altitude DCI

• Pulmonary overinflation syndrome (POIS) / Arterial Gas Embolism (AGE)

• Oxygen toxicity

• Hyperbaric treatment tables

• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT)

  • Administrative management

  • Clinical concepts

  • Patient evaluation and selection for treatment