| Cheers guys for all of your input.
Until about six months ago, I would have given O2 for any diving related incident. It was only last year when a group of us were doing the CMAS D*** course and this year the M1 instructor course this subject started to raise it's head. During the D*** course there are simulated incidents which you as D.O.D have to manage. I remember being corrected by an examiner for saying as part of the Hypothermia treatment, give O2. On my M1 course it reared it's ugly head once again when we were giving lectures to course instructors. It was only on the day of the M1 exam that it came up in conversation with the above mentioned diver that not giving O2 to a hypothermic casualty was in fact Bull and would we mind researching the topic for an article, a "Dispeling the myth" kind of thing.
Anyway considering the feedback from you guys and much research, it appears that this subject is sorted.
I'll post the article when it is done.
Cheers,
SG |