Course Description

Pre Hospital Emergency Care for Divers

Detailed Overview of the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care for Divers Course

As a diver, have you ever wished for more confidence in your ability to identify and address medical emergencies underwater? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you: The 'Pre-Hospital Emergency Care for Divers' course, conducted by The Diver Medic.

This course is designed to enhance your preparedness, boost your confidence, and equip you with the knowledge necessary to handle nearly any dive-related medical emergency. The course comprises online theoretical study and uses 3D computer graphics and gaming technology to create an immersive, inquiry-based learning environment that is both engaging and highly interactive. You will learn and practice skills to evaluate and treat patients, effectively preparing you for real-life situations. Your performance will be monitored to facilitate an adaptive learning approach, tailored to your individual educational needs.

The 'Pre-Hospital Emergency Care for Divers course is suitable for divers involved in sports diving, scientific diving, military diving, police diving, fire and public safety diving, and remote exploration. While commercial divers often work in high-risk situations, recreational divers have higher accident and mortality rates and typically receive less medical training. Consequently, this course is equally valuable for recreational divers.

The course does not teach diving; instead, it focuses on saving lives and assisting in treating dive-related injuries. It will teach you how to operate under pressure and when to make critical life-saving decisions.

Course topics include:

  • The role and responsibility of a Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Provider
  • Incident and patient assessment
  • Airway management with adjuncts
  • Oxygen administration, CPR, and AED
  • Handling breathing difficulties, anaphylaxis, diabetes, head injuries, seizures, and heart conditions
  • Management of minor and catastrophic bleeding, poisoning, burns, scalds, and environmental exposures
  • Understanding drowning, musculoskeletal trauma, diving physics, decompression sickness, gas toxicity, ear and lung injuries, and marine life injuries.

The theory part of the PHECP course will be conducted online, supplemented with a series of innovative mobile and web applications that utilize 3D visualizations and interactive virtual medical simulations. These resources are designed to meet the needs of the next generation of first responders. This can replace your face-to-face practical for $150.00. Saving you travel and accommodation expenses.

For those interested in an additional hands-on practical session over two days, please get in touch with us at [email protected] for further information.

The cost of this online course is $500.00 for the online section. If you do not know how the human body works, We recommend complementing your learning with a FREE Human Anatomy and Physiology course by Khan Academy. This additional resource will help you better understand the human body and its workings. https://www.khanacademy.org/science/health-and-medicine/human-anatomy-and-physiology#lung-introduction

Upon completing the online section, you will receive a PHEC for Divers Theory Completion Award. After receiving your award, we ask that you email [email protected]  so we can send you the login details for your 3D Simulation online Practical. Please be advised that there is a pass or fail on the 3D simulation. On passing, we will send you your certification. There is an option to do two days of practicals in New Jersey, Florida, Oklahoma and California.  Just let us know, and we will put you in touch with one of our instructors to help you with the hands-on and face-to-face practicals. There is an extra fee of $300.00 to do the face-to-face practical with one of our instructors.  This must be done within six months of completing your online Theory.

To enrol in this course, you should be involved in the diving industry as a diver or surface support/tender and have prior training in CPR or First Aid or an equivalent qualification. Feel free to reach out if you have any queries.

The online learning module should take approximately 20 hours to complete in total.

Our Medical/Clinical/Dive Medicine Directors have approved all our training modules.

Pre-requisites:

  • Must be over the age of 18 and in good health
  • Have at least the recreational diver standard or equivalent (Surface Support/Tender)

Certification:

Upon completing your Pre-Hospital Emergency Care for Divers course, you will receive your certificate from The Diver Medic.

This course is equivalent to a Level 4 award.

Please inform The Diver Medic if you wish to receive CAPCE credits for EMTs and Paramedics. 

We hope you enjoy your course.

Please email us if you have any issues.

[email protected]

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 to Pre Hospital Emergency Care for Divers

    • Dictionary of Medical Terms

  • 2

    Module 1

    • Role and Responsibility of a PHECP

    • Some Ethical Issues in Prehospital Emergency Medicine

    • Module 1 Knowledge Review
  • 3

    Module 2

    • Personal Hygiene and Infection Control

    • Sharps and Biohazards

    • sharpsworkbook_2008

    • Module 2 Knowledge Review
  • 4

    Module 3

    • Assessment of the Scene and Injured Diver

    • Guidelines for Field Triage of Injured Patients - Reference document from CDC and MMWR

    • Module 3 Knowledge Review
  • 5

    Module 4

    • The Primary and Secondary Survey Introduction

    • Primary and secondary survey Part 2

    • Primary and secondary survey Part 3

    • 2021 Resus Guidelines for Basic Life Support

    • American Heart Association 2020 CPR and ECC Guidelines

    • European-Resuscitation-Council-Guidelines-2021-Advanced Life Support Guidelines

    • Optimizing outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with innovative approaches to public-access defibrillation-

    • Module 4 Knowledge Review
  • 6

    Module 5

    • Shock

    • Bleeding and Wounds

    • Injuries to eyes and skin

    • Catastrophic bleeding

    • Celox Rapid Video

    • How to Use Celox Rapid-FDA

    • Celox Z- Fold Hemostatic Gauze video

    • SAM XT High and Tight Application Video

    • SAM XT Upper Extremity Video

    • SAM XT Lower Extremity Video

    • Module 5 Knowledge Review
  • 7

    Module 6

    • Vital Signs

    • Vital Signs Blood Pressure Part 2

    • Module 6 Knowledge Review
  • 8

    Module 7

    • Airway Management

    • Airway Management Part B
  • 9

    Module 8

    • Adult Basic Life Support

    • Chris Solomons Sudden Cardiac Arrest Rescue - BBC Helicopter Heroes

    • Agonal Gasps - Bondi Beach Rescue "2013"
  • 10

    Module 9

    • AED

    • Optimizing outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with innovative approaches to public-access defibrillation-

    • European-Resuscitation-Council-Guidelines-2021-BLS

    • European-Resuscitation-Council-Guidelines-2021-ALS

    • Basic Life Support - ERC Guidelines 2021

    • Special Circumstances - ERC Guidelines 2021
  • 11

    Module 10

    • Cardiac Emergencies

    • Heart attack (acute myocardial infarction) video

    • Cardiac Tamponade - video

    • Heart Attack - Cardiac Arrest - CPR (Bondi Rescue Season 9 Episode 9 Part 1)
  • 12

    Module 11

    • Respiratory Emergencies Part A

    • Respiratory Emergencies Part B

    • Asthma Video

    • Chronic bronchitis (COPD) -Video

    • Emphysema (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) - Video

    • Pneumonia - Video

    • Pulmonary Embolisms - Video
  • 13

    Module 12

    • Oxygen administration

    • Prevalence of Prehospital Hypoxemia and Oxygen Use in trauma patients.published article
  • 14

    Module 13

    • Burns - Part A

    • Lund and Browder Chart article

    • Pre Hospital ABC of burns

    • Burns - Part B

    • Silvapro for Burns video

    • Burns Video

    • Burns - CDC

    • Lightning-Strikes-Man TWICE

    • Graphic video of Workmen being Electrocuted

    • Quiz
  • 15

    Module 14

    • Head and Facial Trauma

    • Concussion

    • Stroke

    • Ischemic Stroke

    • Epilepsy and Convulsions

    • Epilepsy

  • 16

    Module 15

    • Abdominal Emergencies

    • Peptic ulcers

    • Appendicitis Video

    • Kidney stones (nephrolithiasis)

    • Diabetes

    • Diabetes in African Americans

    • Diabetes mellitus (type 1_ type 2)

  • 17

    Module 16

    • Musculoskeletal conditions
  • 18

    Module 17 - Physics

    • Partial Pressure Introduction Video

    • Boyles Law Video

    • Charles Law Physical Processes Video

    • Archimedes Principle Video
  • 19

    Module 18

    • Environmental Emergencies Part A

    • Environmental Emergencies Part B

    • PreHospital Treatment of Drowning

    • Quiz 2

    • Marine Life Injuries Lesson

    • Moray Eel Bites Off a Mans Thumb - River Monsters

    • Quiz 3
  • 20

    Module 19

    • How Does the Ear Work Video

    • ENT Barotrauma Part A

    • Hearing Loss Due To Forgotten Foreign Body

    • ENT Barotrauma Part B

    • Lung Injuries Part A

    • Lung sounds - Breath sounds Types Video

    • Lung Injuries Part B

    • SAM Chest Seal Non-Valved Video

    • SAM Chest Seal with Valve video

    • Warning GRAPHIC!!! Emergency Thoracotomy for actively bleeding traumatic lung laceration Video
  • 21

    Module 20

    • Gas Poisoning and Contaminants

    • Hypoxia Cellular injury Video

    • The Effects of Hypoxia at High Altitude Video

    • Decompression Illness Part A

    • Decompression Illness Part B

    • PFO and Scuba diving

    • Probability and severity of DCS paper

    • Treatment Tables

    • Immersion pulmonary Edema

    • Neurological assessment

    • Neurological assessment in Chamber video IMCA

    • Quiz 4

    • How to Initiate a Diving Emergency plan (globaly)
  • 22

    Articles and Medical Papers

    • 5-tips-to-avoid-accidents-on-dive-boats

    • air-nitrox-and-fatigue

    • body-composition

    • buddy-diving-and-dcs

    • cerebral-and-spinal-cord-dci

    • decompression-illness-in-a-vegetarian-diver

    • diving-and-cardiovascular-risk

    • diving-under-the-influence

    • effects-of-diving-on-the-brain-part-1

    • effects-of-diving-on-the-brain-part-2

    • epilepsy-and-diving-q-a

    • epilepsy

    • flying-after-diving-finally-the-facts-not-just-theory

    • gastric-reflux-in-diving-is-it-an-emerging-issue

    • hydrocephalus-shunts-and-scuba-divingcan-this-be-safe

    • hyperthyroidism-and-diving

    • latests-findings-on-dci-and-dive-physiology-part-1

    • latests-findings-on-dci-and-dive-physiology-part-2

    • marijuana-and-fitness-to-dive-the-experts-opinion

    • medical-examinations-for-scuba-diving

    • medical-line-trachinus-araneus-warning

    • medications-and-fitness-to-dive

    • medications-for-depression-and-fitness-to-dive

    • neurological-dci

    • new-effects-of-oxygen-unveiled-by-dan-europe-research

    • perception-of-reality-and-hydration-in-divers

    • pfo-and-diving

    • preconditioning-and-dci

    • preventing-breathing-gas-contamination

    • scuba-diving-and-dental-implants

    • psychiatric-fitness-to-dive

    • temporomandibular-joint-dysfunction-in-diving

    • viagra-curse-or-blessing-for-a-diver

    • women-and-diving-health-considerations

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