US List of Emergency Recompression Chambers Near Active Scuba Diving Locations. . .

[Marie13]

Although Chicago has a big lake and an active local diving community, I wonder if local ambulance drivers and emergency departments are familiar with decompression sickness, emergency procedures, and the available chambers?

My husband and I once visited the ED at a small hospital in Florida because he had unexplained joint pain after diving - it wasn't DCS - but we got the impression that the ED staff were very knowledgeable about diving-related and water-related injuries and were equipped to handle them. I am not sure that would be true in the middle of the country.

I’m not sure. Lutheran General is the ONLY chamber in the Chicago area that will take emergencies of any kind, we were told when I did my chamber dive. So given the amount of diving I do, if anything happens, I will be sure to tell them where the closest chamber is.

 

[KenGordon]

You lot put too much store in DAN, perhaps that is because you don’t have a proper health care system, who knows.

If you come here and get bent the skipper will talk to the coast guard and you will end up in an ambulance or helicopter. You will not get anywhere ringing DAN to choose a chamber. You will get treated, it will certainly be paid for by your local health authority, if you are a tourist it will probably be written off by the chamber. If you go on about DAN enough maybe they will send them the bill.

I have DAN cover for going to far away places.

 

[diversteve]

135 Listed for the U.S. here:

Worldwide Hyperbaric Chamber Locator, Contact London Recompression & Hyperbaric facilities - The London Diving Chamber

 

[JohnnyC]

Other than simple type I DCS . . . NO WAY.

I doubt they even have ACLS capability.

Maybe you should clarify your original post then to include the caveat that any chamber on your list must have ACLS capability. I know for a fact that they have treated type II divers, one of my friends was there a couple weeks ago after a hit while cave diving. Whether this is regular business for them, I don't know.

 

[Kevrumbo]

Maybe you should clarify your original post then to include the caveat that any chamber on your list must have ACLS capability. I know for a fact that they have treated type II divers, one of my friends was there a couple weeks ago after a hit while cave diving. Whether this is regular business for them, I don't know.

Look at the original post #1 @JohnnyC -all the linked sources are Recompression Chambers with supporting Emergency Departments (the Catalina Chamber is a remote extension of the mainland Level 1 Trauma Center ED of LA County General Hospital/USC Medical Center, but has ACLS and Baywatch Lifeguard/Paramedic support, as well as helicoptering in the attending Emergency & Hyperbaric Specialist Physician from the mainland County General Hospital as needed for a patient treatment).

 

[JohnnyC]

Look at the original post #1 @JohnnyC -all the linked sources are Recompression Chambers with supporting Emergency Departments (the Catalina Chamber is a remote extension of the mainland Level 1 Trauma Center ED of LA County General Hospital/USC Medical Center, but has ACLS and Baywatch Lifeguard/Paramedic support, as well as helicoptering in the attending Emergency & Hyperbaric Specialist Physician from the mainland County General Hospital as needed for a patient treatment).

Look at your thread topic. Here, I'll post it for you below. If you want to start a thread, you have to actually describe what you're looking for. Words have meaning dude. If you want specific information, you need to ask for it. The fact of the matter is Joe Dituri's recompression chamber exactly fits your thread title., and has provided emergency recompression for divers, near an active scuba diving location.

Just because you wanted specific information, which you neglected to describe in your post, and just assumed that your respondents would read your mind, isn't my problem.

"US List of Emergency Recompression Chambers Near Active Scuba Diving Locations"

 

[rsingler]

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[Kevrumbo]

Look at your thread topic. Here, I'll post it for you below. If you want to start a thread, you have to actually describe what you're looking for. Words have meaning dude. If you want specific information, you need to ask for it. The fact of the matter is Joe Dituri's recompression chamber exactly fits your thread title., and has provided emergency recompression for divers, near an active scuba diving location.

Just because you wanted specific information, which you neglected to describe in your post, and just assumed that your respondents would read your mind, isn't my problem.

"US List of Emergency Recompression Chambers Near Active Scuba Diving Locations"

Joe Dituri's clinic has no ACLS, and no immediate ED hospital support whatsoever -and therefore does not have the capability treat a worst case hyper-acute or unconscious DCI patient in full arrest.

About Undersea Oxygen Clinic

All of the linked sources in the OP have the capability of treating the entire spectrum of DCI -from simple type I DCS to critical AGE with near-drowning in full arrest.

 

[Gareth J]

Apologies to the moderators if this breaks the request in the moderators post.


I am not based in the USA, but very occasionally get the opportunity to dive in the USA.

In the UK there are two primary numbers you are recommended to ring.

1. 999 (your 112) . Then ask for the coastguard, then state you have a diving emergency. From there they can source the nearest available chamber and the quickest method of evacuation (if speed is required), even tasking a helicopter if required.

2, 07831 151523. The Decompression Emergency Helpline. (Replaced the Royal Navy Emergency Decompression Help line). They can co-ordinate as above.

The question, if I am in the USA and need emergency medical aid for a diving incident, is there one number that should be used as a priority.

 

[sea_ledford]

Only option in Texas at the moment:

Wound Care at Texas Medical Center

And isn't the one in Honolulu back up and running? I thought that was just a staffing issue.