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Evaluation Monday, July 13, 2026

Monday, July 13, 2026

Please rate the impact for each of the following objectives:
1.Program Introduction:  Hyperbaric Medicine's Dynamic Overview
Instructor: Dick Clarke, CHT(Required.)
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Objective: Describe competing factors that serve to support, encourage, challenge, and even threaten the practice of hyperbaric medicine in the current era.
2.Hyperbaric Medicine's Historical Evolution & Chamber Types
Instructor:  Dick Clarke, CHT(Required.)
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Objective:  Describe the evolution of the air-filled hyperbaric chamber from its speculative clinical beginnings through introduction of therapeutic oxygenation, key milestones, and evolution of the single occupancy chamber option to the traditional multiplace chamber.
3.Diabetic Foot Ulcers: Clinical Evidence; Conflicting Data Reconcilation
Instructor: Dick Clarke, CHT(Required.)
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Objective: Discuss treatment options of diabetic ulcers.
Objective: Provide available research data on diabetic foot ulcers.
Objective: Provide hyperbaric practice guidelines for the DFU patient.
4.Optimal Management of Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Instructor: Valerie Palmer, RN, ACHRN, CWCN, CWS, CMBS, FACCWS(Required.)
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Objective: Recognize intrinsic and extrinsic factors that complicate wound healing in diabetic patients.
Objective: Become familiar with various treatment options that optimize healing of lower extremity diabetic ulcers, including HBO therapy.
5.Physical Aspects of Hyperbaric Medicine
Instructor:  Dick Clarke, CHT(Required.)
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Objective:  Summarize the physical characteristics of hyperbaric atmospheres, how differing chamber type ambient pressures are measured, and the basis for dosing terminology.
6.Hyperbaric Physiology: Mechanisms of Action
Instructor: Lindsie Cone, MD, UHM, FUHM
(Required.)
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Objective:  Learners will be introduced to the process by which exposure to highly elevated oxygen pressures provide the mechanistic basis for HBO therapy’s range of common uses. 
Objective:  Common uses will be summarized in the context of their pathophysiologic insult, and HBO’s therapeutic mechanisms.
7.Hyperbaric Medicine Contraindications and Risk Factors
Instructor:  Lindsie Cone, MD, UHM, FUHM(Required.)
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Objective:  Discuss the importance of the risk-benefit ratio as it relates to HBO therapy will be presented in the context of know contraindications, risk factors, and side effects of hyperoxia and hyperbaria.
8.Implantable Medical Devices
Instructor:  Lindsie Cone, MD, UHM, FUHM(Required.)
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Objective: Participants will be able to utilize proper safety precautions and limit participation if necessary for patients with implantable medical devices in the hyperbaric oxygen environment.
9.Completion of this question denotes the same as if my electronic signature were affixed to this document. I attest to the completion of this educational activity.(Required.)