CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION AS A PRIORITY IN PROVIDING EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE TO AN EMERGENCY DIVER

Purpose: to improve the organization of emergency assistance to an emergency diver in a state of clinical death. Clarification of the priority of cardiopulmonary resuscitation by persons providing diving descents.

Materials and methods. Аnalysis of guidelines governing medical support for diving descents and documents for the provision of emergency and urgent assistance, study of emergencies with naval divers.

Results and discussion. Сonsidered one of the reasons that has a negative impact on the approach to emergency care — the lack of a unified algorithm of actions in the guideline documents for diagnosing clinical death in a diver, as well as ambiguous interpretation of the priority of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

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