Dive Time - Lagos Algarve

Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving

This course represents entry-level training designed to educate the general diving (and qualified non-diving) public to better recognise possible dive-related injuries and to provide emergency oxygen first aid while activating the local emergency medical services (EMS) and / or arranging for evacuation to the nearest available medical facility.

Course Objective
The course is designed to train and educate the general diving public in the techniques of using oxygen as first aid for a suspected dive injury. In addition, this course will introduce novice divers to the fundamentals of recognising diving injury signs and symptoms, response and management. This program also provides an excellent opportunity for experienced divers and instructors to continue their education.

The DAN Oxygen Provider course is not designed to train lay persons to provide oxygen to the general public. While the medical standards and equipment are the same regarding the emergency use of oxygen for both divers and non-divers, the DAN Oxygen Provider course does not prepare individuals to respond to the ill or injured member of the general public by using emergency oxygen.

Learning Objectives
Course participants must be familiar with the signs and symptoms of major diving injuries including near drowning and decompression illnesses (arterial gas embolism and decompression sickness).
Course participants must demonstrate proper deployment, assembly, disassembly, and use of all components of the DAN Oxygen Unit. This includes use of the demand inhalator valve / mask, constant flow (delivering oxygen up to 25 lpm), non-rebreather mask and oronasal resuscitation mask with supplemental oxygen inlet.

The course participant must demonstrate skill and confidence while providing emergency oxygen to simulated injured divers by:
1. Assessing the scene and oxygen provider safety
2. Deploying and operating the DAN Oxygen Unit
3. Selecting and preparing the appropriate oxygen mask
4. Operating the DAN Oxygen Unit and using these oxygen delivery devices:

Demand inhalator valve and mask
Constant-flow, non-rebreather mask
Oronasal resuscitation mask with supplemental oxygen inlet
5. Identification of the main components of the DAN Oxygen Unit

Oxygen cylinder and valve
Multi-function regulator
"T" handle
Handwheel/wrench
Oxygen washer
Constant-flow controller
Intermediate (White) pressure hose
Pressure activated check valve (in threaded outlet)
Demand inhalator valve
Oronasal mask
Non-rebreather mask
Oronasal resuscitation mask with supplemental oxygen inlet

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Advanced Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving

This course is an advanced level course and provides additional training for those individuals who have successfully completed the DAN Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries course within the past year (12 months). It is designed to train DAN Oxygen Providers to use a positive pressure valve (as the MTV100) and/or a bag-valve-mask (BVM).

Course Objective
The DAN Advanced Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries ("DAN Advanced Oxygen Provider") programme is designed to teach the skills and knowledge needed to supplement Basic Life Support (BLS) and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) skills with resuscitation techniques to assist any diver who is not breathing. The course is divided into two parts: The use of the Manual Triggered Ventilator (MTV, also known as Resuscitation valve) and the use of the Bag Valve Mask (BVM). According to local laws and regulations, providers will be trained in the use of the MTV only or in the use of both MTV and BVM.

Learning Objectives
At the end of this programme, participants will be able to:

List the instructions for providing oxygen to non-breathing injured scuba divers.
State the ideal concentrations of oxygen and the factors that can influence them.
Inspect the MTV and/or Bag Valve Mask
Outline the circumstances for using the MTV and/or the Bag Valve Mask.
List the directions for ventilations with the MTV and/or Bag Valve Mask.
List the potential problems associated with the use of the MTV and /or Bag Valve Mask.
List the considerations for effective ventilations with the MTV and/or Bag Valve Mask.
Describe the characteristics of an effective ventilation using the MTV and/or Bag Valve Mask
Explain the steps to follow for cleaning, disinfecting and maintenance of the MTV and/or Bag Valve Mask.
Perform a scene safety assessment.
List the steps in performing a scene safety assessment.
Assess the Airway, Breathing and Circulation (ABCs) of an injured diver.
Demonstrate a caring attitude towards a diver who becomes ill or injured.
Establish and maintain the Airway and Breathing (perform Rescue Breathing) for an injured diver.
Disassemble and reassemble the MTV and/or Bag Valve Mask.
Demonstrate the correct technique for testing the MTV and/or the Bag Valve Mask prior to using it.
Use the MTV and/or Bag Valve Mask to resuscitate non-breathing divers (during training this will be done on a mannequin)
Use the MTV to provide oxygen to breathing divers
The nature and scope of this course is limited to training Oxygen Providers to provide first aid, using the MTV and/or the BVM for non-breathing injured divers.

This course does not provide complete training for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

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AED for Scuba Diving

This course represents entry-level training designed to educate the general diving (and qualified non-diving) public to better recognise the warning signs of Sudden Cardiac Arrest and administer first aid using Basic Life Support techniques and an Automated External Defibrillator while activating the local emergency medical services, (EMS) and / or arranging for evacuation to the nearest appropriate medical facility.

Course Objective
This course is designed to train and educate the general diving (and qualified non-diving) public in the techniques of using an automated External Defibrillator (AED) for victims of a cardiac arrest. In addition, this course also reviews first aid (and CPR) procedures using Basic Life Support techniques. This program also provides an excellent opportunity for experienced divers and instructors to continue their education.

Learning Objectives
At the end of this programme participants will be able to:

Recognise the warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest.
Provide Basic Life Support while setting up the automated external defibrillator.
Provide basic life support with an AED.
Care for and maintain an AED.
The nature and scope of this course is limited to training divers and interested non-divers such as boat captains, water enthusiasts and non-diving family members to provide emergency cardiac care with an Automated External Defibrillator.

This course does not provide training for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or scuba diving rescue. The training exercises of this course presuppose that the ill or injured diver has already been brought to shore or is aboard the boat.

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