The DDRC, one of the country’s leading DCI research and treatment centres, holds the workshop in Plymouth on Saturday, 11 September.
The “big question” addressed at the event is how divers can better protect themselves from DCI, given that around a half of all DCI incidents involve divers operating within diving computer or table guidelines.
Also examined will be the issue of DCI denial, where sufferers, and/or those around them, can recoil from the admission that a serious problem is developing.
Presenters include top experts and divers who will recount their experiences and what can be learned from them.
The conference is preceded by a black tie dinner at Plymouth’s National Marine Aquarium on Friday 10 September, to celebrate the DDRC’s 30th anniversary.
The DDRC operated from 1980 at Fort Bovisand on Plymouth’s eastern peninsula, before moving to a site next to Plymouth’s Derriford Hospital in 1996. It operates also in Wales.
For two years it ran the South Wales Hyperbaric Medical Centre at St Joseph's Hospital in Newport, before moving recently to a larger recompression unit at Spire Cardiff Hospital in Pentwyn.
The DDRC remains an independent organisation with charitable status.
Its chambers carry out treatments both for injured divers and, working with the NHS, a variety of patients for whom oxygen therapy can boost recovery times.
To find out more about the DCI Workshop or the DDRC’s 30th anniversary dinner, click here.
Alternatively call Ria Fox Brown on 01752 209999, or email her at ria.foxbrown@ddrc.org.
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