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Diving First Aid
"The ability to manage a diving emergency and provide care to an injured diver does not come from experience alone. The best thing you can do to prepare for the dive-related injuries is to learn everything you can about such injuries and the situations that lead to them.
Although you should be thoroughly prepared for any kind of emergency, case histories of diving accidents indicate that full-
blown emergencies in which rescuers need to perform CPR and evacuate injured divers in a critical rush to a hospital are rare. Cuts, scrapes, overheating, and the need to provide emergency oxygen first aid are much more common. Of course, being prepared to deal with these more mundane situations will help you to feel more confident when faced with a series emergency."
Excerpted from Scuba Diving Safety by Dan Orr and Eric Douglas
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Photo Below: Dr. David Charash asks Dan Orr to sign his copy of Scuba Diving Safety at the 2017 Beneath the Sea Show in Secaucus, New Jersey.
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About the author
Get Dan's Book HereDan Orr, past President and CEO of Divers Alert Network (DAN), is known as a first-class educator and longtime ambassador for the diving industry. A veteran diver of more than 40 years, Orr joined DAN in 1991 and immediately established the DAN training department and the Oxygen for Scuba Diving course, a standard in the dive industry.
Orr has held membership and leadership positions in many notable diving organizations such as National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI), Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI), Association of Canadian Underwater Councils (ACUC), Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), National Academy of Scuba Educators (NASE), International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD), Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS), National Association For Cave Diving (NACD), the Historical Diving Society, Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Diving, and the Explorers Club. He is chairman of the board of the Historical Diving Society and secretary of the DEMA board of directors. He has several specialty certifications, including full cave diver, rescue diver, and rapid response rescue and recovery. Orr has authored, coauthored, or reviewed more than 15 books and manuals on scuba and various aspects of scuba safety and rescue.
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