Oxygen Provider

This program generally takes just a half day. With sufficient notice, we can usually offer this course when it’s most convenient for you.

We do have two courses already scheduled. These take place:

• Sunday, February 23, 2025
• Sunday, April 6, 2025

• Be at least 10 years old.
• Be certified to at least the Open Water Diver level.

$149.96 includes:

• All instruction
• eLearning

Oxygen is essential when providing first aid for decompression sickness or lung overpressure injuries. However, to administer O2, you have to do so safely.

• High-pressure oxygen cylinders present a risk of fire and explosion that vastly eclipses that we normally associate with scuba tanks.

• Although similar, oxygen regulators do not work exactly the same as scuba regulators.

• There are specific procedures you must follow when treating an injured diver with O2.

The Oxygen Provider course covers all these things. Most divers take this course in combination with the First Aid/CPR and AED course.

In this course, we cover:

Required Equipment

• Oxygen (O2) cylinder with regulator and delivery device
• Barriers and personal protection equipment

Required Subject Areas

• When do you administer oxygen
• Oxygen for non-breathing victim
• Oxygen for breathing victim
• Oxygen safety and handling
• Laws and regulatorions of oxygen administration

Skill Performance Requirements

• Scene entry and assessment
• Emergency oxygen
• Set up and use of oxygen cylinder
• Use of different types of masks
• Course completion assessment
• Demonstrate an undestanding of oxygen administration
• Recognize and evaluate and emergency
• Know how to activate or alert EMS
• Administer oxygen to breathing or non-breathing person
• (Inform certification is valid for 2 years)

Most importantly, we don’t practice these skills until you finally get them right. We have you repeat them until you can’t do them wrong.