Kevrumbo
Banned
- Messages
- 5,659
- Reaction score
- 1,366
- # of dives
- 1000 - 2499
Being physically fit is an obvious and necessary requirement for the professional Lifeguard/Paramedics here in Los Angeles County Beaches and offshore Channel Islands.
The nightmare Recompression Chamber Crew scenario here at the Catalina Hyperbaric Facility, is a diving casualty in full cardio-respiratory arrest with a suspected Arterial Gas Embolism, and performing CPR on this patient while the Chamber is being pressurized to 165'/50m (6ATA) for a Table 6A Treatment --the heat of compression is well over 95deg F/35deg C (imagine being inside your Scuba tank during a fast fill!)-- you're narc'd out-of-your-mind and laboring to near exhaustion in the heat trying to save this person's life. . .
The Paramedics inside the Chamber provide Advanced Life Support, but they and the Chamber Crew can only use manual CPR -no aiding cardiac defibrillator unit is allowed inside because of the extreme fire hazard of electrostatic discharge in a hyperbaric oxygen environment.
The nightmare Recompression Chamber Crew scenario here at the Catalina Hyperbaric Facility, is a diving casualty in full cardio-respiratory arrest with a suspected Arterial Gas Embolism, and performing CPR on this patient while the Chamber is being pressurized to 165'/50m (6ATA) for a Table 6A Treatment --the heat of compression is well over 95deg F/35deg C (imagine being inside your Scuba tank during a fast fill!)-- you're narc'd out-of-your-mind and laboring to near exhaustion in the heat trying to save this person's life. . .
The Paramedics inside the Chamber provide Advanced Life Support, but they and the Chamber Crew can only use manual CPR -no aiding cardiac defibrillator unit is allowed inside because of the extreme fire hazard of electrostatic discharge in a hyperbaric oxygen environment.
