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DAN is also supporting efforts
to provide care. DAN sponsored
Mejia’s attendance at a hyperbaric
safety director training course in
the United States and sent staff
to Honduras to provide training
to chamber attendants and
operators at the three hyperbaric
chamber facilities closest to
the Miskito Coast. DAN is also
working with doctors at the
UCLA Gonda Center for Wound
Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine
to send medical residents and
fellows to Mejia’s clinic on a
rotating basis. According to Dr.
Matias Nochetto of DAN, “If a
hyperbaric doctor sees five cases
in a lifetime like those Dr. Mejia
regularly treats he can say he has
significant experience dealing
with serious DCI cases.” The
support these physicians will
give Mejia will improve the care
the divers receive, and it will
provide tremendous educational
and practical experience for
tomorrow’s hyperbaric doctors.
In June 2011 at the annual
meeting of the Undersea and
Hyperbaric Medical Society,
Nochetto presented a poster
and abstract based on Mejia’s
work at his chamber in La Ceiba,
Honduras. The data were based
on 130 Miskito Indians who
were severely injured during the
2010 diving season. These data,
analyzed by Dr. Petar Denoble,
DAN senior research director, will
serve as a baseline of information
against which DAN researchers
and the Honduran government
can compare subsequent years.
The lessons learned from these
severe cases are contributing to
an improved understanding of
decompression illness that can
benefit all divers, perhaps even the
lobster divers.
— DAN Staff
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