Associazione Nazionale Tecnici Iperbarici
Italian Association of Hyperbaric Technicians
Competence of Hyperbaric Technician
Premise: The competence in matter has stayed compiled from the connect of the Service of Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine of the Umberto I - Polyclinic of Rome and recognized from the Prof. A.Gasparetto Manager of the Institute of Anesthesia and Reanimation.
1. OPERATION and MAINTENANCE of the HYPERBARICS APPARATUSES.
The Hyperbaric Technician:
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Check the correct operation of the hyperbaric chambers and the auxiliary systems: the pressers for the production of the air mailing the pressure switch, the pneumatic circuits and the systems of filtration and conditioning of the air, the picture commands with the circuits of control for the management of the therapeutic treatments; |
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Inform immediatly to the Responsible Physician the extraordinary interventions that become necessary for the safety of the plant. |
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Inform to the Responsible Physician on the possible causes of ineffectiveness of the plant: suggests the possible improvements necessary retentions to the necessity. |
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In continue to the opportune procedures of control and verification of the operativity, the Responsible Physician of possible conditions informs that partially or they totally make impracticable a particular treatment hyperbaric. |
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Provides for the maintenance and to the reparation of possible small breakdowns and, in collaboration with the Office Technician collaborate to the extraordinary maintenance of the plant hyperbaric informaing to the Responsible Physician on the execution of the jobs. |
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Effect periodically the proofs of compression up to the maximum pressure of exercise, verifying the operativity of the safety valves. |
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Check all the lines of the gases, the fireproof system and their estate; performs her begun to point of the circuit of respiraton oxygenate and of the mixtures; provides for the possible recording or substitution of the systems of disbursement; calibrate the oxymetry for the control "quality" of the respiraton. |
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Regulate the reduction gears of pressure of oxygen and mixtures to the correct pressure of exercise. |
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Prepare the line of the mixtures in the percentages applications for the execution of the therapeutic charts. |
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Predisposes the surgical aspirator and the cables of connection of the external and inside monitoring apparatuses for the hyperbaric treatment . |
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Check the operativity and the compatibility of the apparatuses and of the tools to the inside of the room, taking care the course at the end of implore dangerous and undesirable effects. |
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Takes the material on consignment destined to the Service of Iperbarica Therapy and take care of the provisioning of it. |
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Controle to the cleaning and to the correct disinfection of the hyperbaric chamber from part of the employed personnel. |
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Is responsible of the compilation of the card technique on the procedures of start, management and arrest of the plant and of the adjournment of the book of ordinary and extraordinary maintenance. |
2. EXECUTION OF HYPERBARIC THERAPY.
The hyperbaric technician:
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Is employed to the manoeuvre of the hyperbaric and experimental chambers in each pressure phase effecting the charts prescribed from the responsible physician; prepares besides to the administration of the oxygen to the patients in the execution of the treatment hyperbaric. |
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In the course of the therapy check and applies the norms concerning the risks deriving from the toxicity of the oxygen and the dangers of fires. |
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Maneuver the equilibrium room allowing the entry and the exit of the medical personnel and busy paramedic to the assistance to the inside of the hyperbaric chamber. |
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During the therapy check and modifies the parameters of the microclimate and the composition of the air in the hyperbaric chamber. |
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Instructs the patients on the manoeuvres of compensation, on the adaptation to the pressurized environment and on the correct ventilation of the medical gases. |
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Attends inside the chamber, only if necessary, for check the correct operation of the respiratory circuits and of the apparatuses or for perform techniques of the proofs. |
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Programs and effects the decompression profiles of the personnel of assistance. Currency, in the application of the safety charts the type of job turns. Appraise the ulterior possibility of employment of the personnel for ulterior interventions under pressure. |
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Elaborate the technique anamnesi of the patients affections from illness from decompression, with the intent of underline the possible committed errors, and present to the Responsible Physician, which ulterior element for the therapeutic choice. |
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Predisposes the appointments for the therapies of the patients optimizing the compressions of the plant in base to the prescription and the authorization of the Responsible Physician; record the therapeutic treatments. |