Course Description

Field Diver Medical Technician (DMT)

Course Director and Instructor

Chantelle Newman, AEA , BSc, EMT-A, DMT,Cert Ed

Chantelle Newman -  Born in Africa 1972, joined South African EMS at age of 19 under Civil Defence then later took on a full time position working on the road as first line response and worked in a very busy control room, Trauma specialist, attended several mass shootings, and bombings in South Africa. Relocated in London in 1998.  Became a medical instructor teaching Emergency Medical Technician, First Response, Health and Safety and First Response Emergency care. 2010 started the Facebook group called The Diver Medic which has become very popular with Diving Medicine and Dive safety posts.  In 2011 qualified as a PADI Divemaster and then a Diver Medic. Later in the year designed a Diver Medical Technician course for DAN Europe and became an IMCA DMT accredited Training facility in London.  Got asked to set up several IMCA DMT Training facilities around the world.  In 2016 got inducted into the Woman Divers Hall of Fame and in August the same year was featured under Heroes of Diving in the Scuba Diving Magazine in the USA.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Dictionary of Medical Terms
  • 2

    Module 1

    • Role of the DMT

    • Personal Hygiene and Infection Control
  • 3

    Module 2

    • Scene Safety

    • Primary and Secondary Survey

    • Opening an airway - Clinical skills - video

    • Taking a good patient history - Video

    • Assessing Basic Vital Signs

    • Clinical Skills Body Temperature Assessment - Video

    • Clinical Skills Pulse oximetry - Video

    • AED

    • Electrocardiography (ECG EKG) - basics Video

    • Sudden Cardiac Arrest and rescue - Filmed in the UK by BBC

    • Oxygen Administration

    • Module 2 Knowledge Review
  • 4

    Module 3

    • The Respiratory System Video

    • Respiratory System

    • Lung sounds - Video

    • Respiratory Problems

    • Actual Live Anaphylactic Attack & Use Of EPI Pen - video

    • Asthma Video

    • Asthma

    • Emphysema (COPD) video

    • Chronic Bronchitis Video

    • Circulatory System Video

    • Normal heart sounds - video

    • Cardiovascular System and Heart Conditions

    • Heart Attack Video

    • Lung Injuries

    • Pneumothorax explained - Video

    • ARS® For Needle Decompression - Video

    • Module 3 Knowledge Review
  • 5

    Module 4

    • Bleeding and wounds

    • CAT Tourniquet one handed arm application - Video

    • Celox Rapid training - Video

    • Celox Z-Fold Hemostatic Gauze - Video

    • SAM XT - Video

    • Arteries and Veins video

    • Shock

    • What is Shock? video

    • Obstructive Shock Video

    • Burns and Electric shock

    • Burns Video

    • Lightning Strike Injury - Video

    • Burns Treatment with Celox SILVA PRO video

    • Musculo- Skeletal System and Injuries

    • Part 1 Fitness Issues for Divers With Musculoskeletal Problems

    • Part 2 Fitness Issues for Divers With Musculoskeletal Problems

    • Immobilization

    • Anaphylactic shock video

    • Cardiogenic shock video

    • Hypovolemic shock video

    • Hypovolemic shock Circulatory System and Disease Video

    • CAT Tourniquet self aid lower extremity application - Video

    • Module 4 Knowledge Review
  • 6

    Module 5

    • Nervous System

    • Structure of the nervous system video

    • Functions of the nervous system video

    • Neurogenic shock

    • Stroke, Head Injures and Seizures

    • Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) video

    • Head Injury video

    • Stroke Video

    • Epilepsy and Diving

    • Epilepsy video

    • Module 5 Knowledge Review
  • 7

    Module 6

    • Abdominal Emergencies

    • Diabetes

    • Diabetes and Recreational Diving Guidelines UHMS

    • Blood Glucose Response in Insulin

    • Module 6 Knowledge Review

    • Quiz 2
  • 8

    Module 7

    • Environmental Emergencies

    • Motion Sickness

    • PreHospital Treatment of Drowning

    • Tropical and Travel Illnesses

    • Dealing with Dengue

    • DAN Discusses Malaria and Antimalarial Drugs

    • Marine Life Injuries

    • Moray Injury - Video

    • Marine Life Trauma

    • I've Been Stung- What Should I Do? UPDATED 2004

    • Spines

    • Necrotizing Fasciitis

    • Quiz 3
  • 9

    Module 8

    • Diving Physics

    • Boyles Law - Video

    • Charles Law - Video

    • Henry's Law - Video

    • ENT and Barotrauma

    • How does the ear work? - video

    • Hearing loss - video

    • Otoscope Use - Video

    • Barotrauma - Video

    • High-Pressure Ophthalmology

    • Can You Prevent Otitis Externa

    • Ears and Sinuses Barotrauma for the Dive Professional - Video

    • Gas Poisoning and Contaminants

    • OXTOX- If You Dive Nitrox You Should Know About OXTOX

    • CNS Oxygen Toxicity - Richard Vann PhD - Video

    • Carbon Monoxide The Silent Killer - Podcast

    • The effects of Hypoxia at High Altitude - video

    • Psychological Issues in Diving

    • Psychological Issues in Diving II

    • Psychological Issues in Diving III

    • DCI/DCS

    • Patent Foramen Ovale part 1

    • Patent Foramen Ovale part 2

    • Neurological Assessment

    • Quiz 4

    • Keeping It Clean - EARS
  • 10

    Remote Diving

    • In-Water Recompression (IWR)

    • Pre-hospital management of DCI

    • DHMJ- In water Recompression

    • Remote Management of DCS Video
  • 11

    Woman and Diving

    • OB & Diving

    • The Risks of Pregnancy and Diving

    • DAN Explores Fitness and Diving Issues for Women
  • 12

    Medication and Diving

    • Clinical Pharmacology

    • Pseudoephedrine

    • Cardiovascular Medications and Diving

    • DAN Takes a Look at Over the counter Medications

    • Medications for Depression and Fitness to Dive
  • 13

    Video Library

    • Blood pressure - Video

    • ASSESSING SUITABILITY FOR DIVING for Medical Professionals - Video

    • Children and Diving - Video

    • Dive Accident Management - Video

    • Dive Accident Response First Response for the Injured Diver - Video

    • Diver Fatalities How Good Divers Get into Bad Trouble (Dan Orr, M.S.) - Video

    • Diving and Hyperbaric Physiology - what have we learned - Video

    • Diver Recovers Despite Delayed Treatment - Video

    • Evidence-Based Decompression - Video

    • Fitness to Dive - Video

    • Alcohol and Diving - Video

    • Blood Thinners & Diving - Video

    • Breathing Nitrogen Uptake - Video

    • Children and Nitrox Diving - Video

    • Extreme Exercise and Diving - Video

    • Gas Toxicities - Video

    • Medical Evaluation to Dive - Video

    • Medications and Diving - Video

    • Practicing Your Emergency Plan - Video

    • Migraine & Diving - Video

    • The Bends - Diagnosis & Treatment - Video

    • Toothache and Diving - Video

    • Vertigo and Diving - Video

    • Sinus Surgery - Video

    • Safety Planning - Video

    • Children and Diving with Dr David Charash - Webinar
  • 14

    Reference documents

    • Diving Medicine in Clinical Practice

    • Ethical Issues in Prehospital emergency Medicine

    • Harrison's Manual 16th Ed

    • Nasopharyngeal airway paper

    • physiological-responses-to-high-pressure-during-immersion

    • Anxiety

    • Cardiovascular Fitness and Diving

    • Cardiovascular Fitness and Diving

    • CNS Considerations in Scuba Diving

    • Common Ear Injuries While Diving

    • Decompression Illness

    • Diving & The Body System

    • Gastrointestinal Issues

    • Guidelines for Recreational Diving with Diabetes

    • Headaches and Diving

    • In-Water Recompression

    • Juggling Physical Exercise and Diving

    • Review of a DAN Study of Plasma Glucose Responses in Recreational Divers