Hyperbaric?

[suckstobeme]

What's the deal with Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine? It sounds awesome and useless at the same time. If I do the fellowship, maybe I can be chief scientific officer for that villan in Batman that tries to sink Gotham City to the bottom of the ocean so he could rule it with an iron fist. I bet he offers a great 401k.

Any insight would be appreciated. I seriously have no idea what that stuff is good for.

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[ditch doctor]

You'd be surprised how much work you get. Especially in cities that are near touristy diving places (Outer banks North Carolina) but even more so than that places that are near off shore drilling places such at Texas and Louisiana. Also, hyperbarics is not just for diving accidents anymore. Wound care, brain injury/cva, CO poisoning just to name a few... You could even sell your soul to the devil and open up a posh hyperbaric wound care clinic with a cosmetic plastic surgeon and theoretically make the big bucks.

 

[BADMD]

What's the deal with Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine? It sounds awesome and useless at the same time. If I do the fellowship, maybe I can be chief scientific officer for that villan in Batman that tries to sink Gotham City to the bottom of the ocean so he could rule it with an iron fist. I bet he offers a great 401k.

Any insight would be appreciated. I seriously have no idea what that stuff is good for.

There are a couple of EM docs where I work who are hyperbaric certified, though not fellowship trained. They dive patients daily for wound care and they are on call for certain poisonings.

There is far more to undersea medicine than just the hyperbaric chamber. There is a heck of a lot of industry that involves being under the sea. Those industries need docs who understand the unique environment.

 

[hyperbaric]

You rang?

http://www.kumc.edu/hyperbaric/Physician.html