Hyperbaric Facility Safety: A Practical Guide, enduring material textbook-based course

Course overview

This online course will consist of reading Hyperbaric Facility Safety: A Practical Guide, and taking the accompanying quizzes to prove comprehension of the material. In Hyperbaric Facility Safety: A Practical Guide, we look at the codes and standards that influence our field. Depending upon your location in the world, as many as 15 or more agencies codes, standards, regulations, or laws may need to be conformed with in order for a facility to operate. Chapters cover the regulatory environment and take an in depth look at the various systems that make up the modern hyperbaric chamber. We have also revamped information on the international aspects of the regulatory environment. Contributors from around the world completed a questionnaire that surveyed the practice of hyperbaric medicine in their respective countries. This data has been summarized in a table, with explanatory notes as required. The second focus area takes a nuts and bolts approach to hyperbaric safety. Utilizing the expertise of key figures in the hyperbaric field, the reader will find a comprehensive compendium of resources that can be useful toward the development of a state of the art hyperbaric safety program.