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London Diving Chamber

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Company description The London Diving Chamber, a Hyperbaric decompression chamber offering NHS funded recompression to divers with Decompression Sickness (DCS) together with other Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) treatments.
London Diving Chamber provides everything a diver could need from a medical facility.
What we do:
*NHS funded recompression
*Diving and HSE Dive medicals
*Free consultation if you think you have the bends
*Dry diving
*Phone advice
*Hyperbaric and PADI recompression chamber courses
London Diving Chamber offers a hyperbaric service of the highest standard to scuba divers.
*The hyperbaric staff and dive doctors at London Diving Chamber are some of the most experienced in the country in treating scuba divers with decompression sickness (an accumulation of over 50 years).
*All of the hyperbaric staff and doctors at our decompression unit specialise only in hyperbaric medicine (see the LDC Team page) and are not brought in from other disciplines within the hospital. Our Doctors see divers all day, every day -the experience level you should expect from a diving Physician.
*All staff are regularly trained and attend courses to understand the latest developments within the hyperbaric industry. Staff at LDC lives and breathes Diving Medicine, we pride ourselves on our knowledge and experience levels.
*London Diving Chamber is a member of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS), the most progressive hyperbaric societies that constantly develops research to understand more about the ways in which hyperbaric oxygen therapy can help both scuba divers with decompression sickness as well as other medical benefits of hyperbaric treatment.
Our benefits:
*Nearly all of the staff at London Diving Chamber (all but one!) are scuba divers themselves, with the chamber staff coming from military and commercial diving backgrounds.
*The London Diving Chamber is part of the Hospital of St. John & St. Elizabeth, one of the most prestigious private hospitals in London. Should they be needed, LDC has full use of the Hospitals excellent facilities and leading Consultants are on hand covering all disciplines. LDC NEVER passes the cost of these services onto divers.
*The London Diving Chamber runs a 24hour worldwide helpline. Providing support to dive clubs, shops, instructors as well as individual divers on all aspects of diving. We are very happy to provide FREE telephone & email consultations regarding all aspects of diving, from advice on DCI/DCS, diving on medication to problems when diving abroad, in fact, whatever your question, we are here to help…24hours a day…365 days a year.
*The Hyperbaric Chamber at London Diving Chamber has one of the deepest depth ratings of any chamber in the UK. Not only does this mean we can provide Dry Dives to 50 metres in complete safety (we get nowhere near our working pressure!) but also allows us to run ANY DCI Therapy Table should we need to.
*The London Diving Chamber is funded by the NHS. As such, regardless of the situation, LDC has never and will never charge divers for its services or advice. In fact, LDC has in the past and will continue to provide treatment to divers who do not qualify for NHS funding. We will never turn away a diver in need.
*The London Diving Chamber will give fully qualified and diver-friendly advice on all diving medical issues – plus many other scuba diving issues that we are often asked.
*The London Diving Chamber offers many services to scuba divers to help them learn more about hyperbaric medicine, decompression sickness, dive medicals, general dive medicine and other issues of general interest to the diving industry.
Location description: Available following courses:
*Diver Medic Course
A course that is suitable for dive guides & instructors, particularly those working in remote locations. Subjects covered: guidelines of using a recompression chamber; decompression sickness & other dive related medicine; practical field medicine and advanced CPR. The London Diving Chamber have brought together a number of experts in specialised fields, staff from The Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth and The London Diving Chamber to provide the best teaching for a practical dive medical course.
*Chamber Attendants Course
A course covering operating a decompression chamber, chamber safety, decompression sickness, diver patient care & dive tables.
*PADI Chamber Awareness Course
The purpose of the Orientation to Recompression Chambers Distinctive Specialty is to provide a safe & well supervised introduction into the work of a hyperbaric facility. It is designed to familiarise divers to the facilities available, the procedures used, problems and hazards associated with a recompression chamber and possible treatments available.
Course participants are expected to take part in a recompression chamber dive to a maximum depth of 40 metres.
*HSE - Recompression chamber
The HSE approved Professional Scuba qualification is required by all professionals who work underwater in a professional capacity, such as: filming, actors & presenters, commercial divers, marine biologists, marine archaeologists and anyone working underwater. The London Diving Chamber is an approved recompression chamber for the chamber familiarisation section of part IV of the HSE Professional Diver Course.
This course is only for participants of the HSE part IV Professional Scuba Diver Course.

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London Diving Chamber is a hyperbaric chamber providing NHS funded emergency recompression for divers with the bends / decompression illness / decompression sickness.

Contact information:
Phone: 020 7806 4000
Mobile: 07940 353 816
Street Address:
Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth
60 Grove End Road
St Johns Wood
London
United Kingdom
NW8 9NH
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) London, Edinbourg, Lisboa
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