Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Diving medicine practice started in Malaysia since 1960s with a multiplace chamber left by the Royal Navy at Woodlands Naval Base, Singapore. In 1978, the Army Special Forces Training Centre at Sungai Udang Malacca received a multiplace chamber from Australia Defence Force. Until late 1996, hyperbaric chambers in Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) were only used for training and treating decompression illness. The installation of the first hospital based hyperbaric chamber in Lumut Naval Base in November 1996 has opened a new era in the practice of this relatively young field of medicine in Malaysia. For the past 20 years, diving and hyperbaric medicine in MAF has developed with procurement of more hyperbaric chambers in the medical service as well as in the navy. Changes in practice of the diving and hyperbaric medicine in MAF have indirectly influenced the development of this field in the civilian side. CONCLUSION: Nowadays, MAF Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine Service play an important role in occupational health of not only the divers and submariners in the MAF, but it also benefits other working divers and recreational divers in Malaysia.
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@proceedings{APCPH-2019-17,
title = {Transformation of Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine Service in Malaysian Armed Forces},
author = {Muhd Yusof Abu Bakar},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-22},
urldate = {2019-07-22},
journal = {6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health 2019 Proceedings},
issue = {6},
abstract = {INTRODUCTION: Diving medicine practice started in Malaysia since 1960s with a multiplace chamber left by the Royal Navy at Woodlands Naval Base, Singapore. In 1978, the Army Special Forces Training Centre at Sungai Udang Malacca received a multiplace chamber from Australia Defence Force. Until late 1996, hyperbaric chambers in Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) were only used for training and treating decompression illness. The installation of the first hospital based hyperbaric chamber in Lumut Naval Base in November 1996 has opened a new era in the practice of this relatively young field of medicine in Malaysia. For the past 20 years, diving and hyperbaric medicine in MAF has developed with procurement of more hyperbaric chambers in the medical service as well as in the navy. Changes in practice of the diving and hyperbaric medicine in MAF have indirectly influenced the development of this field in the civilian side. CONCLUSION: Nowadays, MAF Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine Service play an important role in occupational health of not only the divers and submariners in the MAF, but it also benefits other working divers and recreational divers in Malaysia.},
note = {Type: PLENARY AND SYMPOSIUM; Organisation: Institute of Underwater Medicine, Malaysian Armed Forces Hospital, Perak.},
keywords = {Hyperbaric Medicine, MAF, submariner},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}