Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society

05/01/2026

Registration is still open for tomorrow's UHMS Mid-West Chapter Town Hall on Safety!

Saturday, May 2nd from 12:00 Noon-4:40 pm ET

https://www.uhms.org/education/featured-education/calendar/331-cth-mw-26/individual-registration.html (login required or create an account)

SCHEDULE
12:00-12:05 Introduction/CE Requirements Laurie Gesell, MD
12:05-12:35 Inside Attendant Fitness / Go-No-Go Tony Alleman, MD
12:35-1:05 Hyperbaric risk assessment resources Rob Sheffield
1:05-1:35 IV Pumps & Chamber Configurations Kevin Gardner, CHT
1:35-2:05 C**T Pathway Laurie Gesell, MD
2:05-2:35 Quality Management is the first step to Safety Derall Garrett, CHT
2:35-2:40 Break
2:40-3:40 Why Winston Churchill Is Relevant To The UHMS Today Tom Workman, CHT
3:40-4:10 Risk Evaluation for High-Risk Patients John Kirby, MD
4:10-4:40 Pulling it all together: Safety in a complex patient Gaurav Narula, MD; Prashan Gunasekera, MD

‍‍**The meeting will start at 12 pm ET zone. If the attendee RSVPs to the meeting invite, the invite will be added to their calendar in their time zone. Please be aware of the start time in your time zone. (9am PT; 10am MT; 11am CT; 12pm ET)

FEES:
MEMBER (Regular): Physician/PhD or Equivalent - $70
MEMBER (Associate): Non-Physician (Technician/Nurse/Respiratory Therapist) - $50
NON-MEMBER: Physician/PhD or Equivalent - $90
NON-MEMBER: Non-Physician (Technician/Nurse/Respiratory Therapist)) - $70

‍C‍ONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS:

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.

Designation Statements:
• Physician CME: The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

• Nursing/RRT Contact Hours: This live activity is approved for 4.5 CE hours provided by Florida Board of Registered Nursing/RRT Provider #50-10881.

• NBDHMT: This live activity is approved for 4.5 Category A credit hours by National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technology, P.O. Box 758, Pelion, South Carolina 29123.

• Hyperbaric Certification Commission (HCC) has approved the Mid-West Chapter Town Hall 2026 on Safety livestream, May 2, 2026, for 4.5 continuing education credits toward Hyperbaric Certified - Safety (HC-S) recertification.

The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) is an international non-profit organization serving members from more than 67 countries. The UHMS is the primary source of scientific information for diving and hyperbaric medicine physiology worldwide.

04/14/2026

Register today for the upcoming 2026 Mid-West Chapter Town Hall on Safety here: https://www.uhms.org/education/chapter-meetings/mid-west-chapter.html

Date: Saturday, May 2nd (12:00 Noon-4:40 pm ET)
Platform: Virtually via Teams

Registration Fees:
MEMBER: Physician/PhD or Equivalent - $70
MEMBER: Non-Physician/Resident/Fellow/Student - $50
NON-MEMBER: Physician/PhD or Equivalent - $90
NON-MEMBER: Non-Physician/Resident/Fellow/Student - $70

Physician CME: The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing/RRT Contact Hours: This live activity is approved for 4.5 CE hours provided by Florida Board of Registered Nursing/RRT Provider #50-10881. License types: RN, LPN, CNS, ARNP, CNA, CRT, RRT, RCP Provided through the Florida State Board of Nursing and the CE 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 this letter for you to file with the respective nursing board.

NBDHMT: This live activity is approved for 4.5 Category A credit hours by National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technology, P.O. Box 758, Pelion, South Carolina 29123.

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.

Register today and hear from our leading experts in Safety and Hyperbaric Medicine and receive the latest industry updates.

04/09/2026

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03/11/2026

Register today for the 2026 ASM Workshop: Contemporary Issues in Diving Medicine.

Registration fee: $250
Date: Sunday, May 17, 2026
Where: Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Add this to your UHMS AsMA-UHMS Annual Scientific Meeting Registration to maximize your CE credit (8.5 hours).

Scan the QR code below or go to: https://asma-uhms-asm.org/registration/registration-for-workshops/9-workshop-diving.html










AsMA-UHMS Annual Scientific Meeting

03/11/2026

Register today for the 2026 ASM Workshop: Emerging Challenges in Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine: Audits, Appeals, and Payer Policy Shifts.

Registration fee: $250
Date: Sunday, May 17, 2026
Where: Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Add this to your UHMS AsMA-UHMS Annual Scientific Meeting Registration to maximize your CE credit (8 hours).
(NBDHMT credit not offered)

Scan the QR code below or go to: https://asma-uhms-asm.org/registration/registration-for-workshops/10-workshop-wound-care.html

02/10/2026

Enduring Material Now Available for the 2025 AsMA-UHMS Annual Scientific Meeting
(Originally hosted June 2-5, 2025 in Atlanta, GA)

Register here: https://www.courses-uhms.org/courses/annual-scientific-meetings/product/134-2025-asma-uhms-annual-scientific-meeting.html

The primary goal of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society ASM is to provide a forum for professional scientific growth and development to the participants. The meeting provides a basis for exchange of ideas, both scientific and practical, among physicians, researchers, and other health professionals. It affords an opportunity for participants to meet and interact with past and present leaders of the Society, and to become active in societal affairs.

Estimated time to complete this activity: 23 hours

Termination Date: February 9, 2029

Price:
• Non-Member: $517.50
• Regular UHMS Member: $402.50
• Associate UHMS Member: $287.50

Schedule:
• 70th Louis H. Bauer Lecture: Open Innovation at NASA - good ideas can come from anywhere - Jeffrey R Davis, MD
• UHMS Kindwall Keynote:"The Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine: Experience with Treating IDF Soldiers.” - Shai Efrati, MD
• Plenary: Chapter 16, UHMS Indications: Mechanisms of Action - Gerardo Bosco, MD, PhD
• A1: Hyperbaric oxygen suppresses inflammatory microparticle production in carbon monoxide poisoned patients and in a murine model. - Stephen R. Thom, MD
• A2: Composition of Breathing Gas Impacts the Development of Noise Induced Hearing Loss in the Hyperbaric Environment - Elliott Dirr, PhD
• A3: Hyperbaric Oxygen Exposure Oppositely Affects Gene Expression of the SARS-CoV-2 Receptors, Toll-Like Receptor TLR3, Interleukins IL4 and IL10, IKKepsilon, and the transcription factors FOXO1 and NFATC1 via Inverse Regulation of NRF2 and miR-365b-5p Expression in Normal and COPD-Diseased Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells - Eva Yi-Hui Chen, PhD
• Plenary: UHM Fellows: Top articles in Hyperbaric Medicine - Samantha Ni, MD
• Plenary Panel: Evaluation of patients for hyperbaric oxygen treatment, to treat or not to treat - Lin Weaver, MD; Owen O'Neill, MD; Sandra Wainwright, MD
• B10: Ten sessions of Hyperbaric Oxygen versus sham treatment in patients with Long COVID (HOT-LoCO): a randomised, placebo controlled, double-blind, phase II trial. - Anders Kjellberg, MD
• B11: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy with and without sodium thiosulfate for treatment of wounds caused by calciphylaxis. A retrospective a**lysis of the past 20 years - Doris J. Armour, MD
• B12: Five-year chronic disease burden and mortality risk in carbon monoxide-poisoned patients, with and without hyperbaric oxygen, compared to patients with wrist fractures abstract - Lindell K. Weaver, MD
• 11th Eugen G. Reinartz Memorial Lecture: “Commercial Space, Human Spaceflight, the I.S.S. and the U.S. Return to the Moon - Mark N. Sirangelo, PhD
• UHMS Lambertsen Keynote: "Last Breath - Reasoning with life and death at the bottom of the North Sea." Chris Lemons - Chris Lemons
• Plenary: Shunted venous bubbles: an update on behaviour and pathogenicity - Simon Micthell
• C66: Decompression to altitude and from high pressure – a common mechanism for microparticle production and putative site for bubble nucleation. - Stephen R. Thom, MD
• C67: Neutrophil Transcriptomic Responses to Hyperbaric Stress Using a Human Lung-on-a-chip Model - Abigail G. Harrell, MS
• C68: Real-Time Automated Detection of Venous Gas Emboli: Prospective Evaluation of a Deep Learning Pipeline after Hyperbaric Chamber Dives - A***n Azarang, PhD
• Plenary: Engineering the academic pipeline for undersea medicine: A global strategy for next-gen STEM workforce development - Virginie Papadopoulou, PhD
• Plenary: Analyzing. Blood biomarkers that compares scuba divers to free divers - Tommaso Antonio Giacon
• D78: Effect of pre-dive ketone food products on latency to CNS oxygen toxicity - Kyle Steinbock, BS
• D75: Whole-body Nitrogen Elimination after Diving using an Open-Circuit Indirect Measurement Method - Sven De Ridder
• D76: Central nervous system oxygen toxicity and core temperature responses to HBO2 during immersion with hypercapnic O2 at 3 ATA and pure O2 at 5 ATA in rats - Courtney Wheelock, PhD
• Plenary: UHM Fellows: Top articles in Undersea Medicine - Jayanth Adusumalli, MD
• Plenary: International panel: Vestibular DCI; DEEP; Saturation diving table reviews - Phil Bryson, Rosanna Stokes; Andrew Abercromby, PhD; Jean-Pierre Imbert
• Plenary: Extremely Intensive Care – Successful delivery of Hyperbaric ECMO - Ian Millar, MD; Bridget Devaney,
• E111: Retrospective cohort study of Microvascular Fluorescence Angiography (MFA) use in hyperbaric oxygen therapy patients following lower extremity amputation complicated by flap ischemia.stract - Benjamin R. Banks, MD
• E112: Additional Information Obtained from the CMS Controlled Study Employing Billing Records to Report Effects and Costs of Hyperbaric Oxygen for Radiation Cystitis - John J. Feldmeier, DO
• E113: Sharpened Romberg Test variability in a randomized, double-blind trial of Hyperbaric Oxygen for Persistent Symptoms after Brain Injury. - Rosemary Ziemnik, MS
• F130: Myopic changes persist 6 weeks after hyperbaric oxygen treatment course in monoplace chamber - Joan W Chou, MD
• F131: Ultrasound muscle scans collected during decompression may predict post-dive venous gas emboli loads - Joshua Currens
• F132: Divers tend to produce individually consistent venous gas emboli grades after conducting the same dive multiple times. - Joshua Currens
• Plenary: Microparticle research: An international collaboration with South Korean physicians on carbon monoxide poisoning. - Stephen Thom, MD
• Eustachian Tube Dysfunction & Middle Ear Barotrauma Diagnosis, Grading, Treatment, & Prevention - Owen O'Neill, MD, MPH
• Regulatory Oversight – Hyperbaric Medicine’s Pandora Box? - John Feldmeier, DO; Tom Workman
• Armstrong-Hart Lecture: Pressure Perils from Undersea to Outer Space Panel - Jon Clark, MD; Mitch A. Garber, MD; Michael Gernhardt, PhD; Rich Moon, MD
• Plenary: The most complicated monoplace chamber out of this world -Michael Harrison
• Plenary: Update: engineering and pressure - saturation tunnel working in the extremes - Justin Costello
• Go No-Go survey - Marc Pullis
• Update on codes and compliance - Gus Gustavson, RN
• Concepts of Human Factors in Diving - Jonathan Langham (GA Aquarium)
• Common findings or common pitfalls for Hyperbaric Facility Accreditation Panel - Larry Chase, MD; Monica Skarban, RN; Holly Manchini, CHT
• Cultural sensitivity in healthcare related to providing hyperbaric care -Gus Gustavson, RN

Physician CME: The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society designates this enduring material for a maximum of 23 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing/RRT CE: Approved for 23.00 contact 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, CNA, RCP, CRT, RRT. Florida Board of Registered Nursing Provider #50-10881.

NBDHMT: This enduring material is approved for 6 Category A and 17 Category B credit hours by National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technology, P.O. Box 758, Pelion, South Carolina, 29123, USA.

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.

CME For MOC Program Guide Designation Statements for ABMS Boards
• 23 MOC points in the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) Maintenance of Certification(MOC) program; and
• 23 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance ofCertification (MOC) program; and
• 23 MOC points in the American Board of American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (ABOHNS) Continuing Certification Program (CCP); and
• 23 MOC points in the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program; and
• 23 MOC points in the American Board of Pathology (ABPath) Continuing Certification Program (CCP); and
• 23 MOC points in the American Board of Surgery (ABS) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program; and
• 23 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification(MOC) program; and
• 23 MOC points in the American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS) Maintenance of Certification(MOC) program.

Why Choose the UHMS Online CME Portal?
• Learn at your own pace.
• Receive your continuing education credit certificate immediately upon completion.
• Unlimited access to re-review the educational program while it's posted.
• Choose your own comfortable setting.
• Access from any device where you have an internet connection.
• UHMS Members receive significant discounts and free credits.

More information is available at the UHMS Online CME Portal: https://www.courses-uhms.org/courses/annual-scientific-meetings/product/134-2025-asma-uhms-annual-scientific-meeting.html

The primary goal of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society ASM is to provide a forum for professional scientific growth and development to the participants. The meeting provides a basis for exchange of ideas, both scientific and practical, among physicians, researchers, and other health profess...

01/13/2026

2025 UHMS Northeast Chapter Town Hall on Wound Care
Enduring Material Now Available
‍(Originally hosted October 11, 2025)

Register here: https://www.courses-uhms.org/courses/chapter-town-hall-meetings/product/137-2025-uhms-northeast-chapter-town-hall-on-wound-care-v2.html

Schedule:
• Management of the Insensitive Limb: The Carville Approach - Lou Iannuzzi, PT, DPT, C.Ped
• Hyperbaric and Wound Care Approach to the Cancer Patient: Would You or Wouldn't You Treat? - Sandra Wainwright, MD, FUHM
• Management of Venous Leg Ulcers - Mikel Sadek, MD, FACS
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Wound Care - Zachary Gaskill, DO
• A Gut Reaction: Navigating The Diagnosis in Pelvic Radiation Sequelae - Nituna Phillips, CHT
• Creepy Crawly Critters: Maggots, Leeches, and Wound Care - Kelly Johnson-Arbor, MD
• Missed diagnosis: Nonhealing ulcer which turned out to be angiosarcoma - Leena Hani, MD, MPH
• Total Contact Casting for Diabetic Foot Ulcers in Partial Foot Amputations - Garrett Ruff, BS
• Hydroxyurea Ulcers - Paige Curcio, BS

Lecture Descriptions and Objectives:

1. Total Contact Casting (TCC) remains the gold standard of care for limb threatening neuropathic ulcerations, It’s effectiveness is unparalleled, it will serve as the initial intervention standard to resolve diabetic foot ulcerations before hospitalization, antibiotic therapy, or surgery. When applied at initial insult, the TCC works 99% of the time to heal ulcers expediently, cost efficiently, and without the need for costly adjunct dressings, potions, grafting, or surgery. TCC needs curriculum based training in medical, podiatry, nursing, and physical therapy medical education curriculums, seminar based training modules, and national sponsorship.

If the most current literature supports the efficacy of TCC intervention and has designated it as the gold standard of care, while most clinicians are not using TCC, are we practicing substandard care? The rising incidence of lower extremity amputations related to diabetic foot ulcers suggests we are practicing less than the gold standard.
2. Review wound care techniques for managing a wound that is from cancer. There is also a review of current cancer treatment modalities, nutrition, and cases to discuss.
3. Overview of management of venous leg ulcers from a vascular surgeon’s perspective to include management of venous leg ulcers, review of venous leg ulcer guidelines, and indications for superficial and deep venous treatments.
4. Overview of cutaneous presentations of IBD followed by condensed review of pathophysiology impacting fibrosis in wound healing and pertinent treatment considerations.
5. Present a case-based exploration of a patient with radiation-induced soft tissue necrosis of the terminal ileum following chemoradiation therapy for a**l carcinoma. Through a clinical timeline, attendees will examine diagnostic challenges, differentiation from Crohn’s disease, and the role of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in promoting tissue repair and improving quality of life.
6. Discuss the physiology, dosing and administration, indications, and complications of medicinal maggot and leech therapy. Since many wound care physicians and clinicians do not use medicinal maggots or leeches on a regular basis and thus do not know details about their physiology, use, and complications, this talk serves to provide a basic and introductory background on these FDA-regulated medical therapies for medical professionals.
7. This is a case description of a 74-year-old female who presented for a chronic non-healing ulcer in the left lower extremity that was being managed by dermatology with local wound care and antibiotics. Given no improvement in her symptoms after 8-9 months, she was then referred to wound care clinic where a biopsy was performed which revealed cutaneous angiosarcoma extending with extension to the base. She was then referred to surgical oncology for further work-up and treatment.
8. This lecture reports demographics and clinical outcomes in patients with prior partial foot amputations suffering from diabetic foot ulcers, finding that, with total contact casting (TCC), patients can expect high rates of ulcer healing and low rates of need for revision amputation, although many patients will re-ulcerate and require repeat trials of TCC.
9. I will describe the pathophysiology behind hydroxyurea-associated ulcers. In addition, I will discuss how to recognize the clinical presentation and share a case study that demonstrates this pathology. Finally, I will explore treatment strategies and wound care considerations for patients with hydroxyurea ulcers.

Registration:
Non-Member: $90
Regular UHMS Member: $70.00
Associate UHMS Member: $50.00

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.

Designation Statements:
Physician CME: The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society designates this enduring material for a maximum of 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing/RRT Contact Hours: Approved for 4.00 contact 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.

NBDHMT: Not recognized within their scope for CE credit.

CME For MOC Program Guide Designation Statements for ABMS Boards:
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to:
-4 MOC points in the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program; and
-4 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program; and
-4 MOC points in the American Board of American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (ABOHNS) Continuing Certification Program (CCP); and
-4 MOC points in the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program; and
-4 MOC points in the American Board of Pathology (ABPath) Continuing Certification Program (CCP); and
-4 MOC points in the American Board of Surgery (ABS) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program; and
-4 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program; and
-4 MOC points in the American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

Why Choose the UHMS Online CME Portal?
• Learn at your own pace.
• Receive your continuing education credit certificate immediately upon completion.
• Unlimited access to re-review the educational program while it's posted.
• Choose your own comfortable setting.
• Access from any device where you have an internet connection.
• UHMS Members receive significant discounts and free credits.

More information is available at the UHMS Online CME Portal: https://www.courses-uhms.org/courses/chapter-town-hall-meetings/product/137-2025-uhms-northeast-chapter-town-hall-on-wound-care-v2.html

Schedule:Management of the Insensitive Limb: The Carville Approach - Lou Iannuzzi, PT, DPT, C.PedHyperbaric and Wound Care Approach to the Cancer Patient: Would You or Wouldn't You Treat? - Sandra Wainwright, MD, FUHMManagement of Venous Leg Ulcers - Mikel Sadek, MD, FACSInflammatory Bowel Disease a...

12/03/2025

We are hiring...Chief Editor of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Journal.
The leading, premier peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing the fields of hyperbaric medicine, physiology, and diving science.

Apply with CV, cover letter, and references.
Contact: mailto:jpeters@uhms.org

John Peters

11/06/2025

2026 Winter Symposium: Elevating Care Under Pressure: Medicine at the Crossroads of Safety, Compliance, and Performance

This year’s Winter Symposium will focus on the convergence of undersea, hyperbaric, and aerospace medicine through the lens of human performance, human factors, and risk mitigation. As operational demands grow in diving, hyperbaric, and aerospace domains, our symposium will explore how interdisciplinary approaches can protect, enhance, and sustain human function in extreme and unforgiving environments.
We will place a strong emphasis on lessons learned from accidents, near-misses, and system failures in diving, hyperbaric operations, and aviation, using these to drive improvements in clinical protocols, safety culture, and mission outcomes. This course will feature speakers prominent in their field and will provide time to question and interact with these experts in the friendly confines of The Lodge at Whitefish Lake. Seat are limited, register for the meeting today!

For more information view the video or go to the following link: https://www.courses-uhms.org/live-courses/2026-winter-symposium.html.
John Peters

10/09/2025

UHMS 2025 3rd Qtr Pressure Newsletter now online. Open to all - view at: https://www.uhms.org/publications/pressure-new/pressure-online.html

John Peters

10/07/2025

2025 UHMS Pacific Chapter Town Hall on Safety Enduring Material Now Available!

Register today: https://www.courses-uhms.org/courses/chapter-town-hall-meetings/product/132-2025-uhms-pacific-chapter-town-hall-safety.html

Schedule:
• Normalization of Deviance in a Safety Culture - Gus Gustavson, MPH, RN, CHRNC-A, CHT-A, CRT, UHMSADS
• Inside Attendant Omitted Decompression in Hyperbaric Treatments - Gray Ladd, CHT
• Field of Safety in HBO2- Soft Chamber to Off-Label and their Effects on our Field Presentation and Panel - Leo Tanaka, MD, Jacquline Hocking, CHT, Brenda Freymiller, RN, Chris Allen, MD, Anthony Johnston, CHT, Teresa David, DO, Gus Gustavson, MPH, RN, CHRNC-A, CHT-A, CRT, UHMSADS
• UHMS Accreditation, from A to Z Presentation and Panel - Chris Allen, MD, Neil Gerst, CHT
• Preventing Shallow Water AGE During Scuba Training - Seth Tufvesson, LtCol (USMC), CHT, EMT-P
• Advancing Safety in Hyperbaric Medicine: Recent Projects and Future Initiatives by the UHMS Safety Committee - Andrew Melnyczenko, BSHCA, CHT

Objectives:

1. Discussion about the concept of lowering safety standards based on a history of no incidents with examples of incidents in space travel, hyperbaric medicine, and aviation that result in deaths and/or serious injury.
2. We will discuss the possible scenarios and best practices to help mitigate decompression sickness risk to your Inside Attendant while providing the best care to your patients.
3. Learners will be able to fully understand the status of hyperbaric medicine in their communities and will gain knowledge on how to better educate the population on true HBO2.
4. A brief overview of accreditation with a focus on tips and lessons learned from facilities that have been accredited as well as members of the accreditation team to help YOU consider getting accredited at your facility.
5. We explore the causes of arterial gas embolism pertaining to pulmonary over pressurization.
6. Delve into the critical work undertaken by the UHMS Safety Committee to enhance safety standards within hyperbaric medicine. We will explore recent projects that have significantly improved safety protocols and practices, highlighting key achievements and lessons learned.

Registration:
Non-Member: $90
Regular UHMS Member: $70.00
Associate UHMS Member: $50.00

• Physician CME: The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society designates this enduring material for a maximum of 4.00 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 4.00 contact 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.

•NBDHMT: This enduring material is approved for 4.00 Category A credit hours by National Board of Diving & Hyperbaric Medical Technology, P.O. Box 758, Pelion, South Carolina 29123.

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.

Why Choose the UHMS Online CME Portal?
• Learn at your own pace.
• Receive your continuing education credit certificate immediately upon completion.
• Unlimited access to re-review the educational program while it's posted.
• Choose your own comfortable setting.
• Access from any device where you have an internet connection.
• UHMS Members receive significant discounts and free credits.

For questions or assistance, contact stacy@uhms.org.

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.