The Aberdeen Hyperbaric Medicine Unit based in Aberdeen, Scotland, is the primary recompression facility in Scotland and the co-ordinating centre for all NHS hyperbaric units in the country. The web site provides information on decompression sickness and includes a virtual tour of one of the recompression chambers.
Advice on Ear, Nose and Throat Problems for Divers : Dr. Murray Grossan of Los Angeles, California is a Diving Physician and Ear, Nose and Throat specialist who treats many divers. At this site, he discusses safe and effective drugless treatment for many diving problems, including blocked ears (Eustachian tubes), ear pain, sore ankles, nosebleeds, running out of air early, seasickness, and Perilymph Fistula (round window blowout), as well as problems related to many other conditions.
Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center, is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of underwater diving safety and the treatment of underwater diving casualties. The Chamber's primary function is the treatment of scuba diving casualties, and it maintains the chamber facility and ensures crew availability. The Chamber provides educational programs focused on the promotion of underwater diving safety and is available for underwater diving research projects to improve diving safety.
Diving Diseases Research Centre is a registered charity, treating diving accidents and other emergency referrals and carrying out research related to the undersea environment. The Centre houses three hyperbaric treatment chambers, biochemical and physiological laboratories, a library/seminar room and offices. The types of problems dealt with range from decompression sickness to carbon monoxide poisoning to gas gangrene, In addition research is carried out in such areas as the 1ong and short-term effects of diving on the brain, eyes, bones and spinal cord. In addition, this site also has a map of hyperbaric chambers in the United Kingdom.
Diving Medicine Online provides comprehensive updated information about diving and undersea medicine for the non-medical diver and the non-diving medical professional, as is an excellent reference source for the diving medical specialist. The site includes online questions and answers about diving acceidents for Rodale's Scubadiving magazine.
Doc's Diving Medicine Home Page is dedicated to Undersea Medicine, and to issues of diving safety for both sport and professional divers. Edmund Kay is the Diving Physician for the University of Washington Diving Safety Program, and also serve as Diving Medical Examiner for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) of the United Kingdom. This site is virtually interactive so check out the Guest Book and leave a comment or question related to diving medicine.
Hyperbarics International is located at the Oceans Divers facility, 490 Carribbean Drive in Key Largo, Florida, just one hour south of the Miami International Airport. This 40 hour program is designed to teach physicans, allied medical, dive supervisors and dive rescue personnel advanced chamber and medical techniques for medically evaluating dive candidates, early recognition of the signs/symptoms of DCS and EAA, field management (first aid), evacuation and treatment of diving accident victims, pharmaceuticals agents, total recompression chamber operations and the use of gases during hyperbaric exposures and medical equipment in the hyperbaric environment.
Medical Seminars, Inc. arranges seminars for physicians of all specialties who are interested in scuba diving. The meetings are usually one week long and destinations include the Caribbean and the Pacific. The groups are comprised of physicians from all over the United States and Canada. The academic program is highly accredited by the American Medical Association through the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, as well as the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Off-gas! is a site dedicated to advancing our knowledge of dive physics and physiology. A really handy resource for Divemasters and Instructors, the section "Can I dive if I have .....? is especially useful.
Scuba Diving Explained is a great online book written by Dr. Lawrence Martin of Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The book deals in depth with dive physiology, including the concept of pressure, the four major gas laws as they apply to diving, composition of air, changes in gas pressures with depth, ear and sinus squeeze, lung barotrauma, air embolism, decompression sickness, nitrogen narcosis, and much more!. The book is intended for all sport divers, from beginner to people with years of experience. Scuba Diving Explained should help you better understand this physiology and the effects of breathing compressed air underwater.
Sub Ocean Safety , based in Lacombe, Louisiana, is an interactive world-wide resource for diving safety, disaster networking, law, discount travel, hyperbaric medicine, human rights, attorney reference, travel maps, health and safety. SOS will show you how to use your computer to save lives and boost human rights. A SOS membership will help you to combine 'right action' with travel discounts the world over.
UHMS -- Undersea And Hyperbaric Medical Society , based in Kensington, Maryland, is the primary source of information for diving and hyperbaric medicine and physiology worldwide. Its purpose is to provide scientific information to protect the health of sport, military, and commercial divers and to improve hyperbaric oxygen research and treatment protocols. The Society also provides medical guidelines for physicians and scientists in the fields of diving and hyperbaric medicine.
Wandering Star is an organization promoting medical information to physicians, allied health care professionals and any others who may be interested. They focus on Dive and Marine Medicine, Wilderness Medicine and other specialty areas.
