This site complies with the HONcode standard for trustworthy health information:
verify here.
I know that you have all been anxiously awaiting a January briefing!
For several years, the Board has awarded CEU’s for manufacturer-based transcutaneous oximetry training. The basis for this was the introduction of a requirement that prospective CHTs and CHRNs undergo such training as a certification prerequisite. When the Board first mandated this not all approved hyperbaric training programs incorporated transcutaneous oxygen testing. This meant that the equipment manufacturer was able to fill an important knowledge and testing gap.
Eventually, every program applying for or seeking to renew Board approval was required to have this important screening technology incorporated within their core curriculum. Today, this is universally the case. Therefore, associated credits will have been earned upon successful completion of introductory training. The required hands on practical requirement of at least three studies must be overseen by someone with clinical background. This can be a member of the physician panel, a vascular technologist, CHT/CHRN, or other clinically-based individual with appropriate experience.
Going forward, then, the Board will no longer be awarding CEU’s for manufacturer provided training. The Board does wish to extend its gratitude to those manufacturers who had stepped in to help a great many hyperbaric team members who would have previously had a difficult time meeting this certification prerequisite.
Dick Clarke, President
National Board of Diving & Hyperbaric Medical Technology
Copyright © 2001-2019. National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technology. All rights reserved.
NBDHMT · 9 Medical Park, Suite 330 · Columbia, South Carolina 29203, USA · 803.434.7802
The National Board of Diving & Hyperbaric Medical Technology is a not-for-profit organization recognized as tax-exempt under the United States of America Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3) to ensure that the practice of diving medicine and hyperbaric oxygen therapy is supported by appropriately qualified technologists and nurses, through respective certification pathways. Funding is generated solely through certification fees and sales of Board merchandise. The National Board of Diving & Hyperbaric Medical Technology does not host or receive funding from advertisers or any other forms of business.
The information provided on this site is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between visitors to this site and health care professionals.Any information collected by this site, such as e-mail address, will never be passed on to any third party, unless required by law.
Google Analytics is a webmaster tool used to determine the devices used to access this website so the content can be properly coded to serve phones, tablets or desktops. It is also used to determine the number of visitors to assess load on the server. It is used soley for this purpose and not configured in any way to track or individually identify the visitors themselves and should not concern the visitor in any way.
Updated February 22, 2019