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Diving Medicine

A Note to EMS Providers on Hyperbaric Chambers

September 5, 2020July 17, 2020 by Kevin Reiter
Monoplace Hyperbaric Chamber

I don’t know about the rest of the country/world, but in my neck of the woods, EMT students are taught to bring patients involved in a diving incident, no matter how minor, directly to a hyperbaric chamber. Can someone please put a stop to this nonsense? First of all, HBOT (Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment) is a …

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Categories Diving Medicine, Mythbusting, Water
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