Why Take This Course

Professional divers have unique responsibilities and a duty to respond to unique situations; their first aid training should not be any less unique. DAN’s Diving First Aid for Professional Divers course is designed for commercial, professional, aquarium, and scientific divers, and it provides knowledge and first aid skills specifically for these work environments.

DFA Pro includes all elements of the DAN BLS and EO2 courses and includes material on neurological assessment and first aid for hazardous marine life injuries.  In the neurological assessment portion of the DFA Pro course, you will learn how to properly manage injuries with neurological implications. You will learn to recognize these injuries and properly perform a neurological assessment. You’ll also learn what information to collect and relay to emergency medical services. Recognizing symptoms and responding quickly can shorten recovery times and improve long-term outcomes.  In the hazardous marine life injuries segment, you will gain the knowledge you need to identify specific types of marine life injuries and the first aid skills to treat them.

DFA Pro is the most comprehensive first aid course in the dive industry.  While geared toward dive instructors and Divemasters, anyone, even nondivers, will learn an indispensable set of first aid and risk-mitigation skills.

What You Will Learn

The DFA Pro program prepares you to address multiple problems at once and with confidence. It combines the knowledge and skills from the following four courses into a single approach to managing diving emergencies: The course is comprised of information from the Emergency Oxygen for Scuba Diving Injuries, Neurological Assessment, First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries and CPR HCP plus Bloodborne pathogens.

You will learn the content and skills listed:

• CPR & use of AEDs
• Neurological assessments
• Decompression illness and stroke
• Atmospheric gases
• Respiration and circulation
• Oxygen safety
• Oxygen first aid for scuba diving injuries
• Envenomations from marine life
• Traumatic injuries
• Life-threatening complications
• Seafood poisonings
• Avoidance of marine life injuries
• and more

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