Optional enrichment module. Covers pediatric anatomy and physiology as they alter equalization, thermal balance and decompression stress; the neurological examination adapted to a child; cardiac risk in the older diver;…
Covers documentation of profile, times, findings and interventions to the standard a hyperbaric physician and a court both require; recording serial neurological examinations so change is demonstrable; documenting oxygen by…
Eight branching scenarios covering decompression sickness Type I and Type II, arterial gas embolism, inner ear decompression sickness, immersion pulmonary edema, CNS oxygen toxicity, drowning with hypothermia, and a cardiac…
Establishes what the Diving Medical Responder course does and does not qualify a student to do, the scope-of-practice rule governing every intervention taught, the structure of the fifteen modules, the…
Applies Boyle's, Dalton's, Henry's and Charles's laws quantitatively to a diver. Covers unit conversion across fsw, msw, ata, psi, bar and mmHg; volume change with depth and why the shallowest…
Covers immersion physiology including central blood volume shift and immersion diuresis, cold shock response, the diving reflex and autonomic conflict, pulmonary gas exchange and carbon dioxide retention under pressure, the…

