Diving Emergency Management Provider (DEMP)
The DAN Diving Emergency Management Provider course is comprehensive training package combining Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries, Automated External Defibrillator (AED) for Scuba Diving and First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries. This programme integrates the three courses, saving time without sacrificing any of the skills.
What will I need to start?
Prospective students need current certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
DAN Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries
Oxygen is vital for most life on earth, but it can also be a killer. The gas makes up 21 per cent of the air that we breathe, but at stronger concentrations is very reactive and can cause fires and explosions. In fact enriched air, where the oxygen concentration is greater than 21 percent, can be toxic if breathed at the pressures associated with recreational diving.
Join Galaxsea Divers on this DAN course to learn how to safely handle such a hazardous gas and discover how its speedy administration could ease a diver’s injuries, or even save their life.
The DAN Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries course is designed to train and educate divers and other interested people in using oxygen as first aid for a suspected dive injury - it is not intended to train lay persons to use oxygen to treat the general public. Although the medical standards and equipment are the same regarding the emergency use of oxygen for both divers and non-divers, the DAN Oxygen Provider course does not prepare individuals to treat injured members of the general public with emergency oxygen.
What will I do?
The DAN Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries course consists of knowledge development, skills development and assessment.
In the classroom you will learn how to recognise the symptoms of dive-related injuries and be confident and competent to help.
You will practice using different techniques to provide emergency oxygen first aid appropriate for the patient’s condition, and learn how to contact the emergency services with the necessary details.
By the end of the course you will:
• be able to recognise the signs and symptoms of major diving injuries including near drowning and decompression illnesses.
• be able to demonstrate the correct deployment, assembly, and use of all components of the DAN oxygen unit. This includes competence in using the range of masks to treat minor to more severe conditions.
• be able to demonstrate skill and confidence while providing emergency oxygen to simulated injured divers.
DAN Automated External Defibrillators for Scuba Diving
When anyone suffers a heart attack they need help from someone trained in first aid as soon as possible. If this happens in remote location, as often dive sites are, it may take the emergency services some time to get to a patient. Therefore learning some first aid skills and having the confidence to use them could keep a casualty alive until the professionals can take over their care.
Join Galaxsea Divers on the DAN Automated External Defibrillators for Scuba Diving course to learn how to spot the signs of a heart attack and master the use of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) that give a casualty a much better chance of survival.
This course is designed to train and educate divers, and others, in the techniques of using an AED to treat casualties suffering cardiac arrest.
What will I do?
The DAN Automated External Defibrillators for Scuba Diving course consists of knowledge development, skills development and assessment.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills and basic life support techniques will be reviewed and refreshed.
By the end of this course you will be able to:
• recognise the warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest
• provide Basic Life Support while setting up the automated external defibrillator
• provide basic life support with an AED
• care for and maintain an AED
DAN First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries
The marine world is home to all sorts of wonderful plants and animals, and observing and interacting with them is all part of the fun of diving.
Although divers are encouraged never to touch the wildlife, accidents can happen.
Most injuries occur when divers get far too close to an organism’s defences.
Clumsily brushing a hand against a sea urchin's spines is a common mistake, and at Galaxsea Divers you can learn how to treat this and other more serious injuries.
You will be taught how to identify marine life that could harm you, and how to avoid getting injured. The course is also open to non-divers.
What will I do?
The DAN First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries course consists of knowledge development, skills development and assessment.
The knowledge development section will teach to identity hazardous marine life, learn how to provide first aid for such injuries, and review CPR .
The course will also improve your diving skills to avoid injuries from sea creatures.
In the hands-on skills development section your instructor will guide you to apply what you have learned in the knowledge development section.
By the end of the course you will be:
• confident in performing the first aid skills.
• able to Identify different types of hazardous marine life including jellyfish stings, fish with venomous spines, blue-ringed octopus, sea snakes and many more.
• able to recognise the warning signs of when an animal may bite.
• able to describe the appropriate first aid treatment for dealing with venomous and non-venomous bites, irritations and other brushes with aquatic life.
• able to recognise two common types of seafood poisonings and name fish that can cause seafood poisoning. You will be able to spot the symptoms and have the first aid skills for managing suspected cases.
The course does not provide training for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or scuba diving rescue and the training exercises presuppose that the ill or injured diver has already been brought to shore or is aboard the boat.
How long will the DAN Diving Emergency Management Provider course take?
The course is scheduled for six hours but your instructor will take as long as needed for you to feel competent and confident in your skills.
How do I book a DAN Diving Emergency Management Provider course?
It’s easy, and with convenient dates and times available, just contact our friendly dive centre.
Where can I go from here?
The DAN Diving Emergency Management Provider course will increase your diving skills and knowledge, and boost your confidence.
Why not take other DAN courses to build on this knowledge base and become a more confident and competent diver?
