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Supporting the use of hyperbaric medicine in the British Isles
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Provisional Programme
| Day 1 – Monday 3rd November 2025 | |
| Topic | Presenter |
| Introduction | Mark Glover |
| A systematic approach to anticoagulant use in divers – Presentation | Mark Turner |
| A systematic approach to anticoagulant use in divers – Discussion | Delegates & panel |
| A systematic approach to anticoagulant use in divers – Conclusion | Mark Turner |
| Break | |
| Habitat Diving | Phil Short |
| DDRC fitness to dive audit | James Finn |
| Health and Safety Executive Update | Steve Forman |
| Questions | HSE |
| Lunch | |
| Do we need guidelines on fitness for recreational diving with visual problems? | Richard O’Regan |
| Cardiovascular update | Peter Wilmshurst |
| Aftermath of a diving fatality and the importance of the fitness to dive assessment | Bob Archell |
| Break | |
| Amphetamines for ADHD / Prescribed and non-prescribed cannabis – Presentation | Mark Glover |
| Amphetamines for ADHD / Prescribed and non-prescribed cannabis – Discussion | Delegates & panel |
| Amphetamines for ADHD / Prescribed and non-prescribed cannabis – Conclusion | Roger Beer |
| Day 2 – Tuesday 4th November 2025 | |
| Topic | Presenter |
| Introduction | Pieter Bothma |
| ENT Topic 1 | Rod Jones |
| ENT Topic 2 | Arthur Henderson |
| ENT Discussion | Delegates and panel |
| Break | |
| Sensitivity of transoesophageal echocardiography for detecting large / clinically significant PFOs | Peter Wilmshurst |
| Gas Toxicity | Gavin Anthony |
| Lunch | |
| Case Report – Diver with DCI and ADHD | William Thompson |
| Diving is a career for many, it is fun for many more, but can be very dangerous. Earliest possible recompression is essential for DCI | Robin Heij |
| Case Report: DCS after a shallow dive | Peter Wilmshurst |
| Break | |
| Case Reports – Gas Embolism | Paul Lyon |
| Safe use of batteries in chambers | Gavin Anthony |
| BHA Helpline audit | Michael Woodward |
| Closing comments | Mark Glover |
| Day 3 – Wednesday 5th November 2025 | |
| Topic | Presenter |
| Pelvic Osteo-radionecrosis, A Complex and Difficult Condition – a Role for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy? | Delegates & panel |
| Pelvic Osteo-radionecrosis – patient perspective | Patient |
| Iatrogenic Gas Embolism: Time is Brain! | Dr Robert Weenink |
| Delayed but catastrophic collapse from cerebral air embolism 12 hours after lung biopsy. | Dr Nicole Gull |
| Break | |
| Review of Level 3 critically ill patients treated in the two category one hyperbaric chambers managed by LHM healthcare | Dr Vivek Srivastava |
| Gas Embolism: Development of a Rat Model to Test Therapeutic Interventions | Dr Robert Weenink |
| Air/Gas embolism: What do we need to do | Dr Pieter Bothma |
| Prevention is better than cure! What can be done for air/ gas embolism | Dr Mohammed Asim Hussain |
| Lunch | |
| Serious Cerebral Gas Embolism with a 2 ml syringe. Seriously?! | Dr Mahmoud Saleh |
| Pro-Con Debate: Air/gas embolism needs early hyperbaric oxygen treatment but one session is adequate, unlike the usual practice in decompression illness. | Professor Richard Moon, Dr Robert Weenink |
| CO2 embolism: can resolve very quickly, but can be disastrous | Dr Duncan Peacock |
| Heimlich valves are messy, but essential in the hyperbaric chamber and in aeromedical transfers. What is the alternative? | Vincent Chua |
| Break | |
| A patient with Gas collections in left atrium, ascending aorta, carotid artery, chest pain and headache: what to do? | Dr Jed Talbot |
| Closing comments | Dr Pieter Bothma |