Diving Medicals, Midlands UK, Midlands Recompression & Hyperbaric facilities

Decompression chamber / Hyperbaric chamber for divers with the bends / decompression illness

decompression sickness / DCS / decompression illness / DCI / diving and the bends

Diving Medicine, FAQs, Common Diving Problems

Dry Chamber Dives, Dry Diving, Recompression Chamber

Dive Medicine Courses & Training for Divers

Events for divers Organised by Midlands Diving Chamber

Hyperbaric Chamber in Midlands for Scuba Divers with decompression sickness/decompression illness/the bends - why come to Midlands Diving Chamber

A history of hyperbaric chambers and dive medicine

Dive tables and decompression theory in hyperbaric medicine

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) Treatment

Midlands Diving Chamber contact page - To make contact with the hyperbaric chamber at Rugby, Warwickshire, UK

Midlands Diving Chamber location page - Find the hyperbaric chamber at Rugby, Warwickshire, UK

Diving Medicals, Tanked Up Magazine, Scuba Trust

Quick Links within the Midlands Diving Chamber Website

Scuba Dive Medicals by the Midlands Diving Chamber

Alternatively, fill in this FORM to request an appointment time.

MDC Doctors are able to provide a full range of diving medicals and assessments.

Divers seeking dive medicals will be advised of the Doctor available.

MDC doctors are Appointed Medical Examiners of Divers (AMEDs) under the Diving At Work Regulations 1997.

MDC doctors are UKDMC medical referees

Diving Medicals:

HSE dive medicals for commercial and PADI divers from DM to Instructor
Fit to dive medicals if a YES box has been ticked on a pre-diving medical form
Fit to dive medicals if a YES box has been ticked on a self-certification BSAC medical form
Fit to dive medical for Malta/Gozo/Spain
Fit to return to diving after treatment for DCI
AS4005.1 for diving in Australia
Fitness to dive, if there is a medical problem e.g. asthma
Any problem from equalising to "before I pay for a course am I fit enough?"

Information on HSE dive medicals can be found here.

Open Water Medical

This is the most basic dive medical available and is for anyone who needs the medical declaration signing off by a doctor before taking part in the Open Water or Advanced Open Water dive course, and who has no medical contraindications that they are aware of.

Malta/Spanish/Gozo

For anyone planning on diving in the above three countries, regardless of experience or medical condition.

Both of the above medicals include:

Full physical examination
Lung function tests
BMI
Urinalysis
Blood pressure

Fit to Dive

For those taking up diving who have a medical problem that needs fuller examination. e.g. Asthma, history of Epilepsy or Lung Disease.

Divemaster

For the Divemaster working outside the UK or for those not diving commercially.

As above medicals but with ECG and full lung function testing.

AS4005.1 (Australian Fit to Dive Medical)

For those who wish to dive in Australia and who need to be medically certified fit to dive. This includes anyone intending to complete an entry level Scuba diving course (e.g. PADI Open Water Diver) anywhere in Australia.

Please print out the AS4005.1 form, fill out the first three pages and bring it along to the medical with you.

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These medicals can be booked by calling 01788 579 555 or filling in this FORM.