UHMS Chapter Town Hall Meeting hosted by the Gulf Coast Chapter on Diving Medicine
Originally hosted March 1, 2025

The Gulf Coast Chapter of the UHMS continuing education mission is to promote educational activities for physicians and allied health professionals in the local and regional areas based on a needs assessment of the members and on the UHMS Panel of Expert Opinion. These activities will improve scientific and practical knowledge in the areas of hyperbaric oxygen treatment and diving medicine

Estimated time to complete this activity: 4.5 hours

Termination Date: July 24, 2028

Registration:
Non-Member: $101.25
Regular UHMS Member: $78.75
Associate UHMS Member: $56.25

Schedule:

• Mistakes Divers Makes: Dan Orr
• Managing Decompression Sickness in Remote Locations: Nick Bird, MD
• Time is Tissue? Delays in treatment of AGE: Julio Garcia, RN
• A commercial diver case suggestive of new possibilities for improvement in prehospital ATLS/ACLS: Keith Van Meter, MD

Lecture Descriptions and Objectives:

1. A detailed discussion of the incidence of injury in scuba diving and, through the use of selected case histories, identifies issues/circumstances that can turn an enjoyable recreational scuba dive into a situation resulting in an accident. The presentation includes  recommendations on how to identify and mitigate risks making scuba diving safer and more enjoyable.
2. Decompression sickness often occurs in remote locations. In such environments, treatment options and local expertise may be lacking. This presentation covers a description of decompression sickness, diagnostic criteria and treatment options in remote settings. Case examples are provided which reinforce the fluid nature of these cases and factors that may help guide decisions about treatment versus evacuation. The natural history and treatment of DCS in remote locations is uncommonly addressed. This talk aims to provide confidence in field management approaches in the setting of significant delays to treatment. 
3. Developing a mindset to improve the delivery of potentially life-saving intervention in a timely manner in accordance with recommended guidelines. The delivery of a TT6 can be accomplished in a monoplace with air break capability. The Hart Kindwall (HK) can be delivered in any monoplace with the capability to compress to 3 ATA. These interventions can have an impact of positive outcomes of victims of AGE. The delivery of a TT6 or HK table for an AGE presentation can be accomplished in a monoplace setting with chambers that reach 3 ATA. Two hours to treatment intervention for an AGE is ideal. There still can be substantial benefit from delayed treatment as far as 24 hours.
4. The learner may not think of ways to assure ATP resupply in ATLS/ACLS efforts to resuscitate seriously ill or injured patients and hopefully will be aware of a possible solution to the problem. 

CONTINUING EDUCATION 

Designation Statements: 

• Physician CME:  The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society designates this enduring material for a maximum of 4.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
• Nursing CEU:Approved for 4.50contact hours. Wound Care Education Partners is a Florida based company and a licensed CE Provider through the Florida State Board of Nursing and the CE is reciprocal for nurses in the United States. Florida nursing credits are reciprocal and approved for nurses within all states. Receiving credit for Florida providers is simple, attend the course and our staff will upload your credits directly to the Florida State database. For out of state credit, we provide the necessary paperwork for you to file with the respective nursing board. License Types eligible for credits: RN, APRN, LPN, CAN, RCP, CRT, RRT
• NBDHMT: This enduring material is approved for 3.50 Category A and 1.00 Category B credit hours by National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technology, 9 Medical Park, Suite 440, Columbia, South Carolina 29203.
  • NBDHMT Accreditation Statement: For CHT recertification purposes, the NBDHMT requires a minimum of nine of the minimum 12 required Category A credits relate directly to any combination of hyperbaric operations, related technical aspects and chamber safety.

Accreditation Statement: The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CME For MOC Program Guide Designation Statements for ABMS Boards

As an accredited ACCME provider, the UHMS is now responsible to submit physician learner CME credits into the ACCME PARS system. However, it is the physician’s responsibility to submit the necessary information required to match with the ACCME PARS system. It is also the physician’s responsibility to check with their respective board(s) to see that the credits were applied accordingly.

American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA)
“This activity contributes to the CME component of the American Board of Anesthesiology’s redesigned Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology^TM (MOCA®) program, known as MOCA 2.0®. Please consult the ABA website, www.theABA.org, for a list of all MOCA 2.0 requirements.”

American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)***
“Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 4.50 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.”

American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (ABOHNS) ***
“Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn their required annual part II self-assessment credit in the American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery’s Continuing Certification program (formerly known as MOC). It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of recognizing participation.”

American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS) ***
“Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery’s Maintenance of Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABOS credit."

American Board of Pathology (ABPath)
This activity has been registered to offer 4.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM towards the American Board of Pathology’s Continuing Certification program Lifelong Learning credits.

American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) ***
“Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn up to 4.50 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABP MOC credit.”

American Board of Surgery (ABS) ***
“Successful completion of this CME activity [which includes participation in the evaluation component], enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME [and Self-Assessment] requirement(s) of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit."

American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS) ***
“Successful completion of this CME activity [which includes participation in the evaluation component,] enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME [and Self-Assessment] of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery’s Maintenance of Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABTS credit."

***Will require evaluation feedback

Disclaimer: The information provided at this CME activity is for Continuing Medical Education purposes only. The lecture content, statements or opinions expressed however, do not necessarily represent those of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society.

Full Disclosure Statement: All faculty members and planners participating in continuing medical education activities sponsored by Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society are expected to disclose to the participants any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies. Full disclosure of faculty and planner relevant financial relationships will be made at the activity. 

Disclosures: All individuals in control of content for this educational activity with their relevant financial relationship disclosed are listed below (if applicable). An individual who refuses to disclose relevant financial relationships will be disqualified from being in control of educational content at any time, and cannot have control of, or responsibility for, the development, management, presentation, or evaluation of the CME activity. 

Financial relationships are relevant if the following three conditions are met for the individual who will control content of the education:

• A financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company.
• The content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship.
• The financial relationship existed during the past 24 months

“None of the individuals in control of content (planners/faculty/reviewers/authors) for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.”

There are no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to mitigate for this educational activity.

No commercial support was received for this activity.