I had a customer come back bent from his vacation in Hawaii, DAN referred
him to the chamber at Virginia Mason hospital in Seattle, They asked him to
download his dive computer and print it out if he had time before he went in
to the hospital. Every dcs incident I am aware of up here the chamber staff
always want to see the computer/data first.

Buy the way Virginia Mason is a DAN research facility.
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David
Central Washington Scuba Center
www.cwscuba.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: S I L E N T I M M E R S I O N <silent@cu*.ne*>
To: Simon L Hartley <shartley@sc*.ed*.au*>
Cc: <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: clarifications for a stroke, please!


> Simon,
>
> Sure, good reason. The function of data logging seems to be the only
reason
> for wearing a computer. When does a manufacturer come out with the
> downloadable bottomtimer!!!
> Reason number two does not seem to be relevant to me, but I could be wrong
> here. What would be useful about this information you provide? You develop
> problems in the bottomfase of your dive?!
> Treatment in the chamber will be according symptoms developed, not
> according your ascent rate or other specifics you can provide with your
> computer or am I wrong here?
>
> Regards,
>
> THOMAS
>
> >>Tell me, why computers?
> >
> >Diving mostly with charter divers keeps me within table limits anyway but
I
> >use a computer for a bottom timer for the following reasons:
> >
> >1) As a data logger.  I can download temperature data, depth, times, etc
> >directly to the PC.  I need these data for a few research projects I'm
> >involved with.  Data can be imported into Excel, which is handy.  As it's
> >recorded passively if I decide later that I need the data for a
particular
> >dive it's available (recording data on a slate while managing a large
group
> >of charter divers is often tricky).
> >
> >2) As a detailed record of my dive profile if any problems arise.
Example,
> >last weekend I had a diver who suffered pain during a safety stop and who
> >was in a lot of pain and distress on surfacing.  We put them on oxygen
and
> >evacuated them by ambulance once back on shore.  The pain turned out to
be
> >non dive related and minor but had it been necessary I could have
provided
> >a detailed dive profile.  As the person had been nervous during the dive
I
> >had kept physical contact with them during the entire dive and controled
> >the ascent (slow ascent) so the profile on the computer should have been
> >fairly representative.
> >
> >The above would probably not be that relevant to techies, seems to fit my
> >type of diving though.  Comments?
> >
> >Simon
> >
> >Simon L Hartley
> >RSM Unit Web Administrator\First Year Course Coordinator
> >Associate Lecturer
> >School of Resource Science and Management
> >Southern Cross University
> >P.O. Box 157
> >Lismore NSW, Australia 2480
> >Ph: (02) 66203251 or (61 66) 203 251
> >Fax:(02) 66212669
> >E-mail: shartley@sc*.ed*.au*
> >
> >http://www.scu.edu.au/staff_pages/shartley/index.html
> >
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