Covers compartment models, half-times, M-values and gradient factors; interpretation of a downloaded dive computer profile including ascent rate, safety stop compliance, repetitive sequences and violations; no-decompression and repetitive dive table…
Covers bubble formation, tissue supersaturation and the inflammatory cascade; presentation by organ system including musculoskeletal, cutaneous, neurological, spinal, inner ear and pulmonary; why spinal decompression sickness is patchy, asymmetric and…
Teaches scene size-up and primary survey adapted to the dive environment, dive history taking in a repeatable order, documentation of surfacing time and onset time as separate entries, and the…
Distinguishes diving pathology from the medical, traumatic and environmental conditions that present identically around water. Covers inner ear barotrauma against inner ear decompression sickness, the vertigo differential, chest pain in…
Covers barotrauma of every gas-containing space including middle ear, inner ear, sinus, dental, mask, suit and gastrointestinal; pulmonary overexpansion syndrome and its four outcomes; the timing pattern of arterial gas…

