Need for recompression chambers

[Zinc]

"Paramedics airlifted the man to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, then to an Augusta, Ga., facility with a decompression chamber."

I wonder why he had to be moved to Georgia when there is a hyperbaric chamber in Tallahassee.

[Kelly Jessop]

"Paramedics airlifted the man to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, then to an Augusta, Ga., facility with a decompression chamber."

I wonder why he had to be moved to Georgia when there is a hyperbaric chamber in Tallahassee.

Bingo-I asked that same question!!!! If Tallahassee isn't recompressing divers we are in big trouble. Shands quit recompressing divers and sends them to Tallahassee. If they don't any more then,****,we have a big problem.

[PfcAJ]

Occupied maybe?

[Kelly Jessop]

Occupied maybe?

That is possible,or maybe they get a percent of the airlift at around 17k. I am very pessimisitic knowing the state of the chamber situation in Florida,and I am hoping that the bottom line CFOs haven't declared recompressing divers as nonprofitable enough. Too bad for the victim,100 miles north of Tallahassee at Pheobe Putney in Albany,there is a chamber with a top notch recompression doc.

[jxh2297]

The chamber was in working order this summer. I know someone that used it and took a tour of it. Must have been occupied

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[SlowDiver]

Too bad for the victim,100 miles north of Tallahassee at Pheobe Putney in Albany,there is a chamber with a top notch recompression doc.

Good point Kelly. With Jackson Blue being N. of Marianna my drive time which is just N of Albany is around two hours. And when the Dr. stopped by the Dive Shop it was my understanding he is associated with DAN.



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[Kelly Jessop]

Good point Kelly. With Jackson Blue being N. of Marianna my drive time which is just N of Albany is around two hours. And when the Dr. stopped by the Dive Shop it was my understanding he is associated with DAN.



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The doctor there used to be the chamber doc at Jacksonville,FL,and has a lot of diver experience. I was pleased with my experience with them,not very pleased at getting the hospital to understand DAN insurance and bill for it.

[a64pilot]

The doctor there used to be the chamber doc at Jacksonville,FL,and has a lot of diver experience. I was pleased with my experience with them,not very pleased at getting the hospital to understand DAN insurance and bill for it.

Last time I was a the chamber with the local dive club here, we were told no diver recompression, chamber was for wound care and other scheduled things, but they would not recompress divers

[SR]

I saw in the last issue of Alert Diver that DAN was trying to help with the diver recompression chamber issue.
I think it is a start.

Some of the things listed were:

A List of chambers that are available for diver recompression.
Medical call in support for those chambers
Some funding for chambers?
more streamlined payment from DAN to recompression chambers

I know I would like to see the list of available chambers closest to where I go diving.

[whodunit68]

I recently (this past Sunday night) had a DCS scare and while working with DAN, I was told that the Tallahassee chamber is currently closed but should reopen very soon. There are many chambers around including at least 2 in Gainesville but as pointed out earlier, are not available for divers. The closest currently available to Ginnie is in Orlando. Thankfully I did not go to Orlando but the hospital I was in verified that this was the closest.