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DAN - Automated External Defibrillators
  DAN
Training & Education
Automated External Defibrillator
Program
The DAN Automated External Defibrillator course
represents entry-level training designed to educate the general scuba diving
(and qualified non-diving) public to better recognize the warning signs of
sudden Cardiac Arrest and administer first aid using Basic Life Support
techniques and Automated External Defibrillators while activating the local
emergency medical services, (EMS) and / or arranging for evacuation to the
nearest appropriate medical facility.
- The
mean age of divers who die each year in dive fatalities tracked by DAN is
gradually increasing. It is now approximately 42 years of age. Divers are
getting older, and older people are getting involved in diving.
- Of
the 78 dive fatalities in the DAN 2001 Report on Decompression Illness,
Diving Fatalities and Project Dive Exploration, based on 1999 fatalities,
7.7 percent of them were caused directly by heart disease. At the same time,
heart disease was the direct cause of death for 26 percent of the fatalities
involving divers over the age of 35.
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top of that, 25 percent of divers involved in diving fatalities were also
reported to be taking heart medications.
Heart disease is a common problem. To ignore that
it affects divers as much as it affects the general population does divers a
disservice. When you consider that diving is often done from remote locations -
on beaches or off of dive boats - that are far removed from emergency medical
help, it is important to prepare for every emergency.
DAN Defibrillator Course Content:
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Cardiovascular Disease
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The Heart
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Angina and heart attack
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Cardiac arrest
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The "Chain of Survival"
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Resuscitation review
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Defibrillation
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Legal considerations
All DAN Courses offered by Mermaids CDC - Pattaya,
Thailand
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