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We have a permanent response team with specialist doctors and nurses in
Hyperbaric & Dive Medicine On-Call 24 hours all year round
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Contact the diving doctor on-shift 24/7
Phone: (+354) 543-1000
Hyperbaric Chamber available 24h all year round
Diving Emergency > Köfun Bráðameðferð
Indications for Diving Emergency:
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Decompression Illness
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Any diving accident (includes snorkeling and freediving)
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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.
emergency
Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment > Háþrýstisúrefnismeðferð
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 (Off-Label)
ambulatory
Fitness to Dive > Köfun Læknisskoðun
Indications for Fitness to Dive:
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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.
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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)
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Divers from the public force, who require routinely medical clearance to dive, or what are candidates for diving training course for the first time.
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