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The goal of the Emergency Diving Accident Management course (EDAM) is to produce more thoroughly educated and thoughtful divers and diving professionals, who have deeper understand of the causes, effects, recognition, treatment, and prevention of diving accidents.
EDAM students will be presented with in-depth information on diving accidents, physics and physiology, decompression theory, recognition of diving accidents, neurological evaluations, onsite management of diving accidents, hyperbaric chamber treatments, and dealing with the psychological effects of being exposed to or involved in a diving accident (or any other type of accident situation). Emphasis will be made in applying the information presented to the areas of prevention, causes, recognition, and management of diving accidents.
Students who have completed the EDAM course may opt to take the Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber Operations course which is a 2-1/2 day hand-on program which trains people in the various chamber positions (outside operator, recorder, inside tender). This program trains the students in the basics for working with any chamber program, but it is primarily designed to train new volunteer Crew members for the Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber.
EDAM, along with the Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber Operations course, covers the “Module-16” requirements for Diver Medical Technician (DMT) certification. A student who completes EDAM and Chamber Operations, and is a certified diver holding a current Paramedic (or EMT certification with additional invasive skills) can apply to the National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technology (NBDHMT) for their DMT certification.
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