T The 2016 Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) took place on the Caribbean island of Cayman Brac between 5th and 9th December 2016.
Abstracts of the scientific meeting will be available shortly.
The program of the Scientific meeting was:
Venue: Conference Centre, Brac Reef Beach Resort, Cayman Brac
Monday 5 December | ||
07:30 | Registration | Cayman Hyperbaric staff |
08:00 | Welcome | Dr Mark Glover |
08:15 | Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for diabetic foot ulceration – insight from involvement in a clinical trial and review of evidence | Dr Ron Linden |
09:00 | The effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on bone metabolism and its impact on radiation injuries to head and neck | Dr Jake Freiberger |
10:00 | Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for radiation injuries to pelvis – insight from involvement in a clinical trial and review of evidence | Dr Mark Glover |
10:30 | Break | |
10:45 | Advanced wound care for patients receiving hyperbaric oxygen therapy | Dr Ron Linden |
11:30 | Dive readiness | Dr Neal Pollock |
12:00 | Lunch | |
Tuesday 6 December | ||
08:00 | Narcosis research | Dr Jake Freiberger |
09:15 | Rebreather accident | Dr Fiona Sharp |
09:45 | The anatomy of a diving death | Dr Martin Sayer |
10:30 | Break | |
10:45 | The Royal National Lifeboat Institution casualty care course | Dr Colin Wilson |
11:30 | Vertebral fracture following oxygen seizure | Dr Richard Wilson |
12:00 | Lunch | |
Wednesday 7 December | ||
08:00 | Pathophysiology and prevention of immersion pulmonary oedema | Dr Jake Freiberger |
08:45 | Management of a decompression casualty who is not responding to recompression | Dr Tristan Cope |
09:30 | Poor response to recompression therapy – statistics, prognostic indicators and pathophysiology | Dr Mark Glover |
10:15 | Break | |
10:30 | The interaction between endocrine conditions and diving (1) | Dr Neal Pollock |
11:15 | UK and US disability legislations and how these impact on diving | Dr Mark Glover |
12:00 | Lunch | |
Thursday 8 December | ||
08:00 | The interaction between endocrine conditions and diving (2) | Dr Neal Pollock |
08:45 | Returning to diving after complete recovery – screening for risk factors | Dr Mihaela Ignatescu |
09:30 | Assessment of disabled divers | Dr Fiona Sharp |
10:15 | Break | |
10:30 | Assisting disabled divers – experience of an Adaptive Dive Buddy. | Mr BJ Walton |
11:15 | The health of divers project | Dr Sally Simmons |
12:00 | Lunch | |
Friday 9 December | ||
12:00 | Lunch | |
13:30 | Discussion – Framework to assess a diver with disability | Plenary session – facilitators Dr Freiberger, Dr Pollock, Dr Glover |
14:30 | Summary of discussion regarding disability | Dr Glover |
15:00 | Break | |
15:15 | Discussion – evidence gaps identified during the conference and how might they be addressed by research | Plenary session – facilitators Dr Freiberger, Dr Pollock, Dr Glover |
16:15 | Summary of discussion regarding evidence and proposed research | Dr Pollock |
16:45 | Close of meeting | |
Evening | Conference dinner |
CPD Approval from the Faculty of Occupational Medicine has been applied for.
Hosted by the team at Cayman Hyperbaric Services. John Elliott, who has run the chamber with his wife Ann since 1996, has been an Associate Member of the British Hyperbaric Association for many years and we were very grateful for his offer to host the 2016 meeting.