| Part of ambulance basic training for medical gases is that enonox is contraindicated for DCI. Gas is used mainly for pain relief, its self administed (so diver can refuse) and is mainly used for moving people with broken bones. Also some times used in heart attacks. Look out for the blue bottle on a demand mask or mouth piece. All the other gas on an ambulance (that I have ever used) has been O2, very easy to spot.
The greater scary thing for me was on my bend on bank holiday monday I had to tell the A+E department how to treat me and they went and looked it up on google.
Big thanks to the London Hyperbaric chamber at whipps cross hospital. |