DMAC Guidance

The work of the Diving Medical Advisory Committee is reflected in its series of guidance notes concerning various aspects of diving and diving medical practice. All current guidance is available for downloading free of charge - see the list of documents below, which includes details of superseded and withdrawn publications.

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	Code	Title	Current	Date
	DMAC 01	Aide-mémoire for recording and transmission of medical data to shore	Rev. 1	Jul 2015
	Guide	Electronic DMAC 01 instructions - Using Comments in Adobe Reader		Aug 2015
*	DMAC 02	In-water diver monitoring
	DMAC 03	Accidents with high-pressure water jets		Jan 1981
	DMAC 04	Oxygen content in open circuit bail-out bottles for heliox saturation diving	Rev. 2	May 2016
	DMAC 05	Recommendation on minimum level of O2 in helium supplied offshore		Jan 1981
	DMAC 06	The effects of sonar transmission on commercial diving activities	Rev. 1	Jun 2010
	DMAC 07	Flying after diving: Recommendations	Rev. 2	Nov 2017
	DMAC 08	Thermal stress in relation to diving (Report of a workshop held in March 1981)		Mar 1981
*	DMAC 09	Fitness to dive after neurological decompression sickness
*	DMAC 10	Medical standards for ADS pilots, submersible crew and passengers
	DMAC 11	Provision of first aid and the training of divers, supervisors and members of dive teams in first aid	Rev. 1	Nov 2001
	DMAC 12	Safe diving distance from seismic surveying operations	Rev. 2.1	Jun 2020
	DMAC 13	Fitness to return to diving after decompression illness	Rev. 3	Dec 2022
*	DMAC 14	Medical equipment to be held at the site of a diving operation	DMAC 15
	DMAC 15	Medical equipment to be held at the site of an offshore diving operation	Rev. 6	Feb 2025
*	DMAC 16	Saturation chamber hygiene	DMAC 26
*	DMAC 17	The training and refresher training of doctors involved in the examination and treatment of professional divers	DMAC 29
	DMAC 18	Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Commercial Diving	Rev. 1	Dec 2010
	DMAC 19	The effects of water vapour on diver physiology	Rev. 1	Nov 1990
	DMAC 20	Duration of bell lockouts	Rev. 1	Nov 1997
	DMAC 21	Guidance on the duration of saturation exposures and surface intervals between saturations	Rev. 2	Jun 2006
	DMAC 22	Proximity to a recompression chamber after surfacing		Oct 1992
	DMAC 23	The use of heliox in treating decompression sickness	Rev. 1	Jun 2014
*	DMAC 24	Differential diagnosis
*	DMAC 25	Recommendations for the provision of emergency care for the seriously ill or injured diver when in saturation	DMAC 28
	DMAC 26	Saturation diving chamber hygiene	Rev. 1	Jan 2016
*	DMAC 27	An industry standard for the provision of equipment for emergency medical care in saturation diving systems	DMAC 28
	DMAC 28	The provision of emergency medical care for divers in saturation	Rev. 3	Jan 2024
	DMAC 29	Approval of diving medicine courses	Rev. 3	Mar 2019
	DMAC 29	Approval of diving medicine courses - Checklist only	Rev. 3	Mar 2019
	DMAC 30	Management in divers of osteonecrosis at Ficat stage 1		Jan 2007
	DMAC 31	Accelerated emergency decompression (AED) from saturation		Mar 2013
	Workshop	Accelerated emergency decompression from saturation in commercial diving operations (Report of a workshop held in April 2011)		Mar 2013
	DMAC 32	Guidance on dealing with the body of a deceased diver in saturation		Jan 2014
	Workshop	Improving diver safety current medical issues (Report of a workshop held in October 2014)		Mar 2016
*	DMAC 33	Return to diving after COVID-19
	DMAC 34	Guidance for medical examiners of divers conducting face-to-face medicals during the COVID-19 pandemic	Rev. 1	Dec 2021
	DMAC 35	Exposure index for pulmonary oxygen toxicity in surface-oriented diving	Rev. 1	Feb 2025

* = Document withdrawn and superseded by that noted to the right.

DMAC Position Statements

The committee has also issued the following statements of position:

• DMAC Statement on Commercial Diving and Health (October 2006)
• DMAC Statement on Health Surveillance of Commercial Divers (April 2008)
• DMAC Statement on Exercise Testing in Medical Assessment of Commercial Divers (October 2009)
• DMAC Statement on Requirement for Air Diving to 50 msw in Commercial Diver Training (March 2013)
• DMAC Statement on Deep Saturation Diving Conducted Using Appropriate Procedures (updated March 2019)
• DMAC Statement on Education and Training in Diving Medicine (November 2014)
• DMAC Statement on COVID-19 Vaccination and the Offshore Energy Diving Community (October 2021)

Third-Party Initiatives

While the documents listed below are of interest to DMAC it should be noted that they are not DMAC documents and the Diving Medical Advisory Committee takes no responsibility for the contents:

• A review of accelerated decompression from heliox saturation in commercial diving emergencies - Imbert et al (December 2022)
• Emergency life support equipment for commercial diving operations - Joint Industry Project (January 2016)
• Report on tests of Zoll automatic external defibrillator function in hyperbaric heliox conditions - Helix Well Ops (February 2014)
• IMCA/OLF study on long-term health surveillance of professional divers - Entrance questionnaire | Follow-up questionnaire
• IMCA D 06/20 - Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Guidance for diving contractors

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