Advanced Diving Accident Life Support (ADALS)

Tuesday 2.9.
9.00-18.00
9:00 - 9:15 Introduction / Timo Jama
9:15 - 9:50 Lecture: Decompression Illness (DCI) / Richard Lundell
10:00 - 13:00 Group sessions 1-3 (á 60min)
Session 1: DCI patient - examination / Anne Räisänen-Sokolowski
Session 2: Airway management / Laura Tuominen
Session 3: Tension pneumothorax / Timo Jama

13:15 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:30 Lecture: Drowning and CPR up-date / Timo Jama
14:45 - 18:00 Group sessions 4-6 (á 60min)
Session 4: CPR / Timo Jama
Session 5: Simulation I / Dimitri Lisitsyn and Laura Tuominen
Session 6: Simulation II / Petri Kakko and Amanda Eklund

Wednesday 3.9.
9:00-13:00
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture: Hypothermia / Richard Lundell
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture: ENT problems in divers / Jari Suvilehto
10:00 - 11:00 Practical exam / faculty
11:15 - 11:45 Lecture: HBOT – theory and practice / Riikka Takala
12:00 - 12:30 Final exam / faculty
12:30 - 13:00 Evaluation and closing / faculty

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch and proceed to the congress

Precourse materials (web-based learning):
1. Epidemiology of diving accidents
2. Diving physics
3. Diving gases
4. Decompression Illness (DCI) and decompression theory
5. Barotrauma (lung, ENTs)
6. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT)
7. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) up-date
8. Thermal aspects (hypothermia, hyperthermia)
9. Emergency treatment of drowning victims
10. Immersion Pulmonary Edema (IPE)

Faculty:
Timo Jama, MD, MSc (Disaster Medicine), PhD researcher
Laura Tuominen, MD, PhD researcher
Anne Räisänen-Sokolowski, MD, PhD, Adjunct Prof.
Richard Lundell, MD, PhD, Adjunct Prof.
Jari Suvilehto, MD, PhD
Riikka Takala, MD, PhD, Adjunct Prof.
Dimitri Lisitsyn, RN, paramedic, MSc (Extreme Medicine)
Petri Kakko, RN, paramedic
Amanda Eklund, Med.Student