Open AccessRetrospective review of enquiries to the Québec diving medicine call centre: 2004 through 2018
Author(s) -
David Pm Monnott,
J Boisvert,
Dominique Buteau,
Neal W. Pollock
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
diving and hyperbaric medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.389
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 2209-1491
pISSN - 1833-3516
DOI - 10.28920/dhm51.2.152-160
Subject(s) - phone , medical emergency , medicine , decompression sickness , family medicine , psychology , emergency medicine , surgery , philosophy , linguistics , decompression
The Centre de Médecine de Plongée du Québec (CMPQ) established a bilingual 24-hour dive emergency call line and diving medicine information service in 2004. The toll-free number (888-835-7121) works throughout Canada. Calls and emails (cmpq.cisssca@ssss.gouv.qc.ca) are answered by a CMPQ coordinator or on-call hyperbaric physicians and other consultants as needed. We reviewed 15 years of activity.