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Köfunarveiki eða köfunarslys

Ráðgjöf Köfunarlæknis allan sólarhringinn

S. 543-1000

Háþrýstiklefi bakvakt allan sólarhringinn

Tilvisanir: Heilsugátt eða Saga >> Tilvísanir >> Háþrýsti- og Köfunarlækningadeild >> Köfun Bráðameðferð 

Diving Sickness or Accidents

Contact the diving doctor on-shift 24/7

Phone: (+354) 543-1000

Hyperbaric Chamber available 24h all year round

There are different ways to refer your patients for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Iceland

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We have a permanent response team

with a specialist doctor in Hyperbaric & Dive Medicine On-Call

24 hours the 365 days of the year

Diving Emergency > Köfun Bráðameðferð

​Indications for Diving Emergency: 

  • Decompression Illness

  • Any diving accident (includes snorkeling and freediving)

  • Any acute ill patient involved in diving activities in the last 72 hours

 

Emergency Hyperbaric Oxygen > Háþrýsti Bráðameðferð

Indications for Emergency Treatment: 
•    Carbon Monoxide (CO) poisoning.
•    Gas/air embolism.
•    Central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO).
•    Crush injury and no-fracture compartment syndrome.
•    Second degree burns with more than 20% body surface area.
•    Gaseous gangrene and necrotizing tissue infections.

 

Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment  > Háþrýsti Meðferð

Indications for Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment: 

•    Open fractures with crush injury.
•    Osteoradionecrosis.
•    Soft tissue radio necrosis.
•    Anaerobic or mixed bacterial infections.
•    Sudden deafness.
•    Diabetic foot lesions.
•    Femoral head necrosis.
•    Compromised skin grafts and musculocutaneous flaps.
•    Radio-induced lesions of soft tissues.
•    Surgery and implant in irradiated tissue.
•    Ischemic ulcers.
•    Refractory chronic osteomyelitis.
•    Pneumatosis cystoids intestinalis. 
•    Neuroblastoma stage IV.
•    Brain injury (selected acute or chronic cases).
•    Larynx radio-induced lesions.
•    CNS radio-induced lesions.
•    Post-vascular procedure reperfusion syndrome.
•    Limb replantation.
•    Non-healing wounds secondary to systemic processes.
•    Sickle cell disease.
•    Interstitial cystitis

  • Long-Covid (new)

Fitness to Dive > Köfun Skoðun

Indications for Fitness to Dive: 

  • Those who are healthy and require a medical clearance for diving, to be able to enroll a diving course, training, or activity/tour in Iceland or abroad.     

  • Any patient with a disease who is willing to dive, enroll any diving training or renew a previous expired medical fitness to dive clearance (apply for all types of diving activities)

  • Divers from the public force, who require routinely medical clearance to dive, or what are candidates for diving training course for the first time.

 

Other requests > Ráðgjöf

For other services send a request for patients

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Other general services: hok@landspitali,is

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