Objectives

Basic Life Support for Dive Professionals is a professional-level basic life support program designed to teach advanced skills to dive professionals, divers who find themselves in remote situations where emergency help is not immediately available and interested others who are involved with diving.

Required Curriculum Subject Areas

The program covers the broad skill areas including:

• Initial assessment
• Airway management
• Breathing and ventilation
• Circulation
• Including AED use
• Control of bleeding
• Shock management
• Ongoing assessment

There are two AED options with this program. The instructor can choose to include the AED information included with the program, or integrate the dive specific information from DAN’s Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) for Scuba Diving course.

Skills learned in this program that set it apart from lay-provider level CPR courses include:

• two-person CPR;
• ventilation using a bag valve mask;
• finger sweep;
• suctioning;
• cricoid pressure; and
• the technique for caring for an unconscious choking victim.