Publications
The DMAC diving medical guidance publications are freely downloadable from the website, and include: * DMAC 01: Aide-mémoire for recording and transmission of medical data to shore * DMAC 02: In-water diver monitoring * DMAC 03: Accidents with high-pressure water jets * DMAC 04: Oxygen content in open circuit bail-out bottles for heliox saturation diving * DMAC 05: Recommendation on minimum level of O2 in helium supplied offshore * DMAC 06: The effects of sonar transmission on commercial diving activities * DMAC 07: Flying after diving: Recommendations * DMAC 08: Thermal stress in relation to diving (Report of a workshop held in March 1981) * DMAC 11: Provision of first aid and the training of divers, supervisors and members of dive teams in first aid * DMAC 12: Safe diving distance from seismic surveying operations * DMAC 13: Fitness to return to diving after decompression illness * DMAC 15: Medical equipment to be held at the site of an offshore diving operation * DMAC 18: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Commercial Diving * DMAC 19: The effects of water vapour on diver physiology * DMAC 20: Duration of bell lockouts * DMAC 21: Guidance on the duration of saturation exposures and surface intervals between saturations * DMAC 22: Proximity to a recompression chamber after surfacing * DMAC 23: The use of heliox in treating decompression sickness * DMAC 24: Differential diagnosis * DMAC 26: Saturation diving chamber hygiene * DMAC 28: The provision of emergency medical care for divers in saturation * DMAC 29: Approval of diving medicine courses * DMAC 30: Management in divers of osteonecrosis at Ficat stage 1 * DMAC 31: Accelerated emergency decompression (AED) from saturation * DMAC 32: Guidance on dealing with the body of a deceased diver in saturation * Workshop: Accelerated emergency decompression from saturation in commercial diving operations (Report of a workshop held in April 2011) * Workshop: Improving diver safety current medical issues (Report of a workshop held in October 2014) (missing numbers have been withdrawn or superseded)Courses
DMAC approves training courses in diving medicine which comply with the requirements of the joint committee of theUse of DMAC guidance documents
Canadian association of diving contractors members are required in terms of ''CSA Z275.2-15 Occupational Safety Code for Diving Operations'' Items 8 and 9, to comply with DMAC guidance documents for surface-supplied offshore gas and oil diving and deep diving, including mixed gas and saturation diving.References
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