.:ICHM - INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON HYPERBARIC MEDICINE:.

MAIN TOPICS ADDRESSED

Physical fitness and diving safety.
Medical fitness in technical diving and commercial diving.
Psychological issues in diving accidents.
Remote medical care in diving operations in remote areas involving professional and recreational diving.
Planning the management of diving accidents.
Prehospital medical care in decompression sickness.
Management of mild DS in remote areas.
Physiological monitoring of divers.
The physician’s role in high-performance freediving: the athlete’s view and the physician’s view.
Update: Physiology and pathophysiology of freediving – pulmonary barotrauma and decompression sickness.
Decompression sickness: mechanisms in the formation of bubbles; decompression stress; cardiac alterations in recreational diving decompression sickness.
Incidence of decompression accidents in Brazil and the world.
Patent Foramen Ovale .
The cave rescue operation in Thailand: medical aspects.
Hyperbaric Medicine in the Brazilian Navy.

Hyperbaric centers in the world.
Use of HBOT in osteoarticular infections. Interaction between HBOT and antibiotics.
Use of HBOT in burns.
When to use HBOT in vasculitis.
Ophthalmological indications of HBOT and ophthalmological physiological alterations.
Indications for HBOT in ORL and how to approach otorhinolaryngological complications.
Updates on diabetic foot and actinic lesions.
Use of HBOT in autism, muscular lesions, CNS lesions, and fibromyalgia. How it works and the results.
How to produce good scientific evidence in HBOT? Is there a way to conduct double-blind studies?
How to assess the effectiveness of HBOT in chronic and acute lesions?
How to deal with complications in monoplace chambers?
How can HBOT stimulate osteogenesis and angiogenesis?
Interactions between chemotherapeutic agents and HBOT.
Good practices in hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Safety in installations at HBOT services: most common concerns and safety errors .
Hyperbaric emergencies: where are the clinics?
Physiological considerations in the use of HBOT in pediatrics: is a child just a small adult?
Side effects and complications of O2 under pressure.

Workers in hyperbaric conditions assisted by Social Security.
Teaching hyperbaric medicine during specialization in occupational medicine.
Occupational outpatient clinic and care for workers in hyperbaric conditions.
Results of dry snorkeling in the construction industry.
Internal guides and repetitive dives.
Occupational health of hyperbaric chamber internal guides.
Management of construction work with compressed air piping.
Management of construction work with shields.
Management of construction work with hyperbaric activity in different national and international settings.

Nursing in hyperbaric medicine: requirements and responsibilities of patient care and supervisory nurses.
Nurse technicians: requirements and responsibilities.
Code of ethics in hyperbaric nursing (review).
Training for the internal guide (theoretical and practical).
Training for the mono and multi-chamber operator (theoretical and practical).
Ethical dilemmas of nurses in hyperbaric activity.

Comprehensive treatment of patients with skin lesions.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in wounds.
HBOT and negative pressure therapy. Why associate the two?
HBOT and grafts. When to indicate?
Primary wound coverage. What’s new?
Dermal regeneration matrix associated with HBOT.
Burns. New approaches and the role of HBOT.
Silver, CAD, PHMB, HBOT. What we have for biofilms and when to associate therapies.
Traumas and crush injuries. A wound center’s experience with HBOT.
Medical nutrition therapy in wounds. Always use supplements?
Rehabilitation in patients with skin lesions.
Antibiotics. When and how to indicate. Systemic and/or local.
The importance of correct diagnosis before prescribing the therapy.

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