207PE0005X — Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine (Emergency Medicine) Physician

Grouping

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians

Classification

Emergency Medicine

Specialization

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine

Section

Individual

Definition

A specialist who treats decompression illness and diving accident cases and uses hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat such conditions as carbon monoxide poisoning, gas gangrene, non-healing wounds, tissue damage from radiation and burns, and bone infections. This specialist also serves as a consultant to other physicians in all aspects of hyperbaric chamber operations, and assesses risks and applies appropriate standards to prevent disease and disability in divers and other persons working in altered atmospheric conditions.

NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.

Other codes under Emergency Medicine

These are the codes a mis-selection most often lands on, because they share a classification and differ only by specialisation.

• 207P00000XEmergency Medicine
• 207PE0004XEmergency Medical Services
• 207PH0002XHospice and Palliative Medicine
• 207PP0204XPediatric Emergency Medicine
• 207PS0010XSports Medicine
• 207PT0002XMedical Toxicology