Course description

At our centre we offer specialist training for divers. We run official basic life support and oxygen first aid courses from the Nautical and Fishery Training School of Catalonia (ECNPC), which are mandatory for professional divers under Catalan law (Decree 265/2003).

We also offer this training for recreational divers, clubs and diving schools. Although it is not compulsory in the recreational sector, we believe it is highly recommended!

In addition, our Master's, TES and TCEPC students study a module on initial care in emergencies in aquatic, subaquatic and mountain natural environments, as well as a module on intervention in rescue and salvage operations.

Thanks to agreements with the Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine and Coronary Units (SEMICYUC), we are a training centre for basic life support and AED instructors for organisations such as FEDAS, CMAS, PADI Europe, EFR, USP, SSI, DAN Europe and ESA Worldwide.

Programme

• Compressed air and other gas diving. Biophysical aspects
• Biophysical aspects of breath-hold diving
• Most frequent diving pathologies
• Drowning: Pathophysiology and pre-hospital management. Emergency department management
• Hyperbaric chambers. Indications and treatment
• Surface Water Rescue techniques and practices
• First Aid training and simulation in the disbaric patient
• Advanced Life Support in the dysbaric patient
• Underwater Salvage and Rescue Services
• Underwater Rescue Techniques and Practices
• Hyperbaric medicine medical history

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