Basic Life Support and First Aid

This program is designed to teach basic life support and first aid in five to six hours. Basic Life Support, or BLS, includes airway management skills such as the log roll and recovery position, one rescuer cardiopulmonary resuscitation and additional skills like caring for a choking patient, controlling bleeding and caring for a patient in shock. The first aid portion of this program includes key skills such as illness and injury assessments, bandaging and splinting skills and emergency moves.

This program meets current American Heart Association and International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) guidelines on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiac Care. It is an instructor-led program featuring skills demonstrations, both in video and live, and skill practice with manikins.

Course Duration: 6 Hours
Prerequisites: None
Cost: $75.00

Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries

As a recreational diver, you can receive training to provide vital first aid that can make a difference to a scuba diver with decompression illness. The DAN Oxygen Provider Course provides entry-level training in the recognition and management of possible diving-related injuries using emergency oxygen first aid.

Course Duration: 4 Hours
Prerequisites: Current First Aid and CPR
Cost: $45.00

Advanced Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries

This advanced-level program is designed to train existing DAN Oxygen Providers to use the MTV-100 or a Bag Valve Mask while providing care for a non-breathing injured diver.

Course Duration: 4 Hours
Prerequisites: Current First Aid and CPR + Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries
Cost: $45.00

First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries

Serious hazardous marine life injuries are rare, but most divers experience minor discomfort from unintentional encounters with fire coral, jellyfish and other marine creatures. This course teaches divers to minimize these injuries and reduce diver discomfort and pain.

Course Duration: 4 Hours
Prerequisites: Current First Aid and CPR
Cost: $45.00

Automated External Defibrillators for Scuba Diving

More than 10 percent of all dive fatalities are actually caused by cardiovascular disease, according to DAN dive accident and fatality statistics. This course teaches divers and other interested parties to provide care for sudden cardiac arrest including the use of an automated external defibrillator (AEDs).

Course Duration: 2.5 Hours
Prerequisites: Current First Aid and CPR
Cost: $40.00

Diving Emergency Management Provider Program

Learn the knowledge and skills from several courses into one single approach to dive emergency management. It includes Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries, Advanced Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries, First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries and Automated External Defibrillators for Scuba Diving.

Course Duration: 9 Hours
Prerequisites: Current First Aid and CPR
Cost: $110.00

Diving Emergency Specialist

Continuing education is an important way for divers to continue to hone their diving skills and improve as divers. Divers Alert Network understands the importance of being an active and involved diver who takes the time to learn about not just new dive techniques, but techniques to care for yourself and others injured in a dive accident.

To recognize this commitment to dive safety, DAN has created a recognition program called Diving Emergency Specialist. The DES designation is a way to commend divers who have sought out the training they need to be prepared buddies and safer divers. To earn this recognition, divers must hold current certifications in:

Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries (or equivalent)
Plus three of the following:

• Advanced Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries (or equivalent)
• First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries (or equivalent)
• AEDs for Scuba Diving (or equivalent)
• On-Site Neurological Assessment for Divers (or equivalent)
• Remote Emergency Medical Oxygen (REMO2)

If you have taken a Diving Emergency Management Provider class, it must have included Advanced O2 and that must be reflected on your certification card.

You must also hold:

• a rescue-level certification or higher with your training agency; and
• current CPR and first aid certifications.

For more information on this program talk to Richard, Ian or Elvis. To apply for the DES click on this Link

Provider Award

The DAN Provider Award program recognizes individuals trained in DAN Provider courses or who use DAN training and/or equipment to help an injured person.

The injured person need not necessarily be a diver. While DAN courses are geared toward dive emergencies, a DAN Provider could:

• Provide care for a swimmer injured by a jellyfish using skills learned in the DAN First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries course;
• Provide oxygen first aid to a swimmer involved in a near drowning/submersion incident using skills learned in the DAN Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries or Oxygen First Aid for Aquatic Emergencies courses or,
• A rescuer trained using the DAN BLSPRO course could provide care and perform CPR on a person in cardiac arrest at a bus station.

The incident need not be dramatic, nor have prevented death or permanent disability. The rescue may be considered unsuccessful as the injury may have been too great and the injured person may not have survived. However, the fact that a bystander attempted help using skills learned in DAN courses is worthy of commendation.

To nominate someone for a DAN Provider Award submit an Online Nomination Form. Anyone can submit a nomination for a DAN Provider Award. You can even nominate yourself.