DAN Oxygen For Injuries 
The DAN Oxygen Provider Course is an invaluable means of learning how to assess and treat scuba divers, that have injured themselves from barotrauma injuries. Some of these injuries can happen from overextended bottom times, rapid ascents, and lung expansion injuries. When a diving accident occurs, your ability to be able to recognize the problem and respond, can assist in speeding the diver’s recovery. It will also marginalize the lasting effects of the bubble formation. Oxygen first aid provides the needed oxygen and helps deliver it to the diver’s body tissue. It will help in the elimination of nitrogen bubbles received from the breathing gas. The oxygen will also help reduce the size of the nitrogen bubbles as well. These are the bubbles that can contribute to decompression sickness (DCS) as well as arterial gas embolism (AGE). Oxygen can also help to minimize or abate existing symptoms until EMS can arrive.
What You Will Learn
The DAN Oxygen Provider course will teach you the techniques of emergency oxygen administration for suspected diving injuries. You will also learn the basics of recognizing dive-injuries, as well as the proper response and management to assist the injured diver. Some of the skills you will learn are:
Oxygen equipment identification
Assembly and reassembly
Scene safety assessment
Initial assessment
Use of demand inhalator valve
Use of non rebreather mask
Use of bag-valve mask,
Use of manually triggered ventilator
Entry Requirements:
Current CPR and First Aid training
Minimum age: 12 years
Course Materials:
“DAN Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries”
(The manual is included in the price of the course.)
Course Date and Times:
Tuesday & Thursday, February 17th, & 19th at 6:30 PM at Toucan Dive
Price:
$100.00 for the DAN Oxygen Provider certification. For an additional $30.00 the PADI O2 Provider specialty can be applied for.