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From: "Tony Matheis" <tonym510@fl*.co*>
To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 20:01:25 -0500
Subject: Re: DECO help-MISSING O2 VALVE
CC: techdiver@aquanaut.com
Sorry Doug , I misunderstood. I did see the original thread but didn't 
relate the two. Too little O2 here, I guess...:-)  


On  5 Apr 98 at 11:32, DOUG MATHIESON wrote:

> Date:          Sun, 05 Apr 1998 11:32:56 -0400
> From:          DOUG MATHIESON <mathieson@go*.ne*>
> To:            Tony Matheis <tonym510@fl*.co*>
> Cc:            techdiver@aquanaut.com
> Subject:       Re: DECO help-MISSING O2 VALVE

> 
> 
> Tony Matheis wrote:
> 
> > Doug, How many triage situations would you have going on one bottle of
> > O2 that most boats carry, most of them have one mask of each type not
> > multiple. Unless there is a CF of magnitude then multiple patients in
> > triage shouldn't be  in the equation.
> >  I understand that all valves in place to provide the highest FO2 is what
> > is desired, my question is why would it have been removed if there would
> > be only one patient on a bottle and that patient was going to be
> > continuously monitored?  I don't understand that statement "We might run
> > out of O2.. Well and good, but if the patient is being tended properly it
> > shouldn't pose any hazard.
> >
> 
> Tony
> The original thread of this discussion was regarding whether the
> ambulance would be taking a non rebreather mask off a DCS patient that a
> fellow diver had applied and replacing it with their own mask which in
> all probability would already have one of the side valves removed to
> allow in ambient air in case of  O2 depletion
> 
> The triage situation I was referring to was a ambulance one,not a dive
> accident
> 
> I have already stated that in the case of DCS I would be replacing our
> missing valve
> 
Cheers

Tony
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