Treatment tables chapter 17 Flashcards
What are the different manning levels for recompression treatment?
Minimum (3 Personnel): SUP, IT, OT
Ideal (7 Personnel): DO, MDV, SUP, DMO, IT, OT, LOGS
Emergency (2 Personnel): SUP, IT
Who is responsible to the Commanding Officer for the safe conduct of recompression chamber operations and for presenting recommended changes to treatment protocols to the Commanding Officer?
Diving Officer
Who is the most qualified person to supervise recompression treatments?
Master Diver
What are the Diving Supervisor’s responsibilities (dive team)?
Execution of treatment protocols, emergency procedures, and supervision of the chamber team.
Communicating with personnel inside the chamber.
Adhering to the rules for recompression treatment.
DMO is contacted at the earliest opportunity during treatment and before release of any patient from the treatment facility.
Ensuring treatment progress is thoroughly documented in the recompression chamber log and the command dive bill.
Tracking bottom time and the decompression profiles of personnel locking in and out of the chamber
Ensuring the decompression profiles of persons locking in and out of the chamber are logged in the chamber log.
What makes a medical officer a DMO?
Graduate of the Diving Medical Officer course taught at the NDSTC
Subspecialty code of 16U0 (Basic Undersea
Medical Officer) or 16U1 (Residency in Undersea Medicine trained Undersea Medical Officer).
What treatment tables must you consult with a DMO prior to committing a patient to?
Treatment Tables 4,7
Are Medical Officers who complete only the nine-week diving medicine course at NDSTC considered to have the same privileges as DMOs?
Yes, with the exception they are not granted the privilege of modifying treatment protocols.
Can Non-diving medical personnel qualify as an Inside Tender via the Military Diver Inside Tender PQS?
Yes; must have a diving physical exam, conform to Navy physical standards, and pass the diver candidate pressure test.
What are Inside Tenders responsible for?
Be familiar with all treatment procedures and the signs, symptoms, and treatment of all diving-related disorders.
Releasing the door latches (dogs) after a seal is made.
Communicating with outside personnel.
Providing first aid
Monitoring vital signs.
Administering treatment gas
Monitoring for signs of CNS oxygen toxicity.
Ensuring that sound attenuators for ear protection
Ensuring that the patient is lying down and positioned to permit free blood circulation to all extremities.
What is a higher priority than recompression for a patient with no pulse or respirations?
Access to ACLS
What may be administered at depth for a diver with no pulse or respirations?
CPR, Patient Monitoring, and Drug Administration (ACLS).
What actions should be taken if the pulseless diver regains vital signs after administering an AED or ACLS?
Continue, or begin, transport to the nearest critical care facility prior to recompression.
When should a pulseless diver be recompressed?
When there is no possibility of evacuation.
What actions should be taken if n AED is not available and evacuation is not an option for a patient with no pulse or reparations?
Recompress the patient to 60 feet, continue BLS measures, and contact a UMO. If an AED becomes available, surface the chamber at 30fpm and apply the AED.
If the diver regains pulse, continue with recompression and monitor the patient closely.
Unless defibrillation is administered within how many minutes, the diver likely will die, even if adequate CPR is performed, with or without recompression?
10 minutes
What are the three types of type 1 decompression sickness?
Joint pain (musculoskeletal or pain-only symptoms)
skin (cutaneous symptoms)
Swelling and pain in lymph nodes
What are the most common sites of joint pain?
Shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, knee, and ankle
What are the hallmark symptoms of Type I joint pain?
Dull, aching quality and confinement to particular areas.
It is always present at rest and is usually unaffected by movement.
Any pain occurring from the abdominal thoracic area, including the hips should be considered as symptoms arising from spinal cord involvement and treated as what?
Type 2 decompression sickness
What symptoms may indicate spinal cord involvement?
Pain localized to joints between the ribs and spinal column or joints between the ribs and sternum.
A shooting-type pain that radiates from the back around the body (radicular or girdle pain).
A vague, aching pain in the chest or abdomen (visceral pain).
Why should pain not be treated with drugs in an effort to make the patient more comfortable?
The pain may be the only way to localize the problem and monitor the progress of treatment.
The most common skin manifestation of decompression sickness is what?
Itching ( transient and does not require recompression)
Faint skin rashes may accompany the itching (also does not require recompression)
Describe cutis mormorata?
Mottling or marbling of the skin
Starts as intense itching
Progresses to redness
Then gives way to a patchy, dark-bluish discoloration of the skin
What may still be present at the end of the treatment of lymphatic type 1 DCS?
Recompression may provide prompt relief from pain. The swelling may still be present at the completion of treatment.