GENERAL EDAM SCHEDULE
Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
07:30 Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast

08:00





Move Out of Rooms
08:30 Goal of
Participants
Decompression Sickness ENT Problems Hyperbaric Chamber Treatment Procedures and Outcomes

09:00 Diving Accidents, Causes and Statistics Diving Accidents Scenarios

Patient Assessments
09:30

10:00 Equipment, Environmental, Education and Personal Limitations Case Histories

Patient Assessment Practice
10:30

Chamber Operations, Hazards, Equipment, and Systems
11:00 Review of Diving Physics and Physiology Pulmonary Overpressure Accidents

11:30 Case Histories Chamber Types and Locations

Course Review
12:00 Tour of Chamber Dive Briefing

Class Photo
12:30 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch

13:00

Free Time Free Time Free Time Patient Evacuation Demo Depart WIES
13:30

14:00 60 fsw Chamber Dive

Decompression Theory and Early Models Baywatch Demo and Boat Tour Neurological Exam Demo Free Time
14:30

Information Gathering and Dive Computer Interrogation
15:00

US Navy Model and Table Development
15:30 Pulmonary Overpressure Accidents Psychological Issues of Diving Accidents and Treatments

Surface O2 Administration and Patient Positioning
16:00 Nitrogen Narcosis

Alternate Decompression Models and Tables
16:30 Flying After Diving and Going to Altitude

Coordination with Local Rescue Agencies
17:00 Oxygen Toxicity Technical Diving Issues

Multi-Level Diving Theory
17:30 Doppler Bubble Detection

18:00 Dinner
Table Comparison Exercise
Dinner Dinner Dinner

18:30

Review of Table Exercise Lecture Make-Up or Free Time 165 fsw Chamber Dive and Dopplering Class Social at Isthmus
19:00

How Dive Computers Work
19:30

20:00 Uses & Abuses
of
Dive Computers

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