Hyperbaric Medicine
The Hyperbaric Medicine Unit is funded by NSD to provide emergency treatment and advice in Scotland for diving related illness. The service is available 24 hours a day, for 7 days a week. The Unit provides a Category 1 therapeutic recompression facility based at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, and responds to calls for advice from recreational divers, diving organisations, medical staff in general practice, hospital services and emergency services in particular the coastguard. The recompression chamber can also used to treat cases of carbon monoxide poisoning and air/gas embolism.
The unit maintains a registration service which quality assures other non-NHS recompression facilities in Scotland, and provides a consultant led advisory support service There are currently three other registered centres based in Oban, Millport on Cumbrae, and Stromness on Orkney.
For more information on the service, please visit the external Hyperbaric medicine website. National Services Division are not responsible for the content of any external sites.
National Services Division contacts:
To contact members of NSD staff, please visit our staff contacts page.
Karen Butler, Programme Manager
Marie Richmond, Assistant Programme Manager
Jenny Dowswell, Programme Support Officer
