TM5508:03
Tropical Marine and Diving Medicine
Townsville
HECS Band 3
Semester 2 flexible delivery.
Staff: Assoc. Professor P Leggat.
This subject presents the basic principles of underwater and hyperbaric medicine. A series of lectures, demonstrations and practical sessions highlight the taking of a diving history, performing a diving medical examination, decompression sickness, management of near-drowning, hypothermia, sinus and ear barotrauma, diving equipment, gases, physiology, diving hazards and diving techniques. A hyperbaric unit is located at Townsville Hospital. Optional dives may be conducted. Marine hazards such as bites and stings are examined. Sea sickness.