CASmall.jpg' alt='California Medical Board Pace Program In South' title='California Medical Board Pace Program In South' />94 South California All CTA buses are accessible. Route Information Schedule Brochure. Text Timetable via RTA Trip Planner. Get the latest breaking news across the U. S. on ABCNews. com. Our Doctors PACE Cardiology Clinic. Dr. Pantano completed his medical degree at Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, his training in Internal medicine and Cardiology at Hospital San Roque Cordoba, Argentina. Crackerjack Nutcracker England. He then specialized in Cardiac Electrophysiology at Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria British Columbia, Canada. Current position Associate Staff Cardiologist Electrophysiologist at Southlake Regional Health Centre, Ontario. His practice consist in community base general cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology including complex ablation for atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, pacemaker and implantable cardiac defibrillators. Previous position 2. Staff Cardiologist, Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. Director of the Electrophysiology Fellowship Program, and leader of the Remote Magnetic Navigation System, Stereotaxis laboratory at Alberta Heart Institute, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technology. December 2. 00. 9Take a moment to check out the Boards all new Online Store. It was completely revamped and upgraded in November. Merchandise is of the highest quality and the stores payment process has finally entered the modern era credit cards are accepted Consider these items as a great way of displaying and promoting your certification status as a Diver Medic or Hyperbaric Technologist. Hyperbaric Nurse merchandise will be offered once a suitable logo has been designed and approved by the Baromedical Nurses Association Certification Board. Let us know if there are other items you would like to see offered. Sweat shirts and ball caps are in the works. A new NBDHMT Position Statement was posted on the website home page several weeks ago. It relates to the disturbing practice of hyperbaric oxygen chambers and related supportive infrastructure being sold to the lay public and used in the in home setting. Our doctors specialize in general cardiology, electrophysiology, interventional cardiology, pediatric, and adult congenital cardiology. Keck-School-of-Medicine-of-USC-United-States-797x420.jpg' alt='California Medical Board Pace Program In South' title='California Medical Board Pace Program In South' />To the informed, this practice will immediately raise several red flags. Given the Boards leadership position on all things hyperbaric safety, it would be remiss if we did not offer public comment against this practice. This months Briefing represents a full calendar year of what we hope have been helpful insights. We will continue to use this communication vehicle to keep you apprised of what we have in the planning stages and what is being contemplated. Those of you who have written to us about the Monthly Briefings have been uniformly pleased. We hope this sentiment extends more broadly. Some reminders The decompression tables examination questions on both the CHT and CHRN examinations will change effective January 1. From this point, these questions will be based upon the most recent version of the U. S. Navy Diving Manual Revision 6. All DMT training must incorporate invasive skills training in the new year. Fees will increase for CHRN certification on January 1st, 2. DMT certificates will be issued only at the time of the initial certification. A new card will be issued upon re certification. In the past, certificates were issued for both certification and re certification. We have updated the certificates so they no longer have an expiration date. Therefore, your certificate will always show your original certification date. On a final note, Board Administrators Jeannie Mc. Lamb and Nancy Martinich join me and the entire Board of Directors in wishing you and your families an enjoyable and safe holiday season. Dick Clarke, President. National Board of Diving Hyperbaric Medical Technologytop of pageNovember 2. Many of you will have noticed the HON icon that now features prominently on the Boards website. The Health on the Net Foundation HON promotes and guides the deployment of useful and reliable health information. Created in 1. 99. HON is a non profit, non governmental organization. It is accredited to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The NBDHMT received HON certification in October of this year. This important distinction was the result of a HON review committee determination that the information contained within the NBDHMT website meets HONs eight ethical principals. HON will regularly monitor the website to ensure ongoing compliance. Visitors to the site are assured of the quality and trustworthiness of its medical and health content. You may also have noticed improved navigation within the DMT, CHT and CHRN linked sections. The ability to locate and download certification application materials has been enhanced. Please dont hesitate to contact Board headquarters if you feel that we can further enhance the value of our website content. As noted in previous Monthly Briefings, the Board has been researching the possibility of incorporating national testing centers into the certification examination process. Having completed the review process it is apparent that we will not be able to offer testing center examination options. Principally, it came down to cost. Clearly, these testing centers commonly deal with larger organizations than the NBDHMT. Unfortunately, there is no way that the Board can absorb associated annual costs as high as 6. We will continue to coordinate on site proctorship testing opportunities, to the widest geographic scope possible. A quick review of the current testing locations will indicate just how wide spread and how frequent the Board is able to schedule testing sites. For 2. 00. 9 alone, some 3. On a final note, a new CHT certification level has been introduced. It serves to recognize those who have advanced professionally from their technical and clinical duties to management and administrative responsibilities. Until now, these individuals have frequently been unable to complete the necessary technical and clinical hours to meet CHT recertification requirements. By applying for CHT Admin, they will now be able to maintain their CHT identity and continue to be recognized as a hyperbaric professional. October 2. Primary Source Verification is now live on our website for all categories of certification. Prospective employers can now directly search our CHRN, CHT and DMT databases. Upon entering an individuals last name in the appropriate box, via the Confirm Certification link on the Home Page, one will see that individuals full name, certification number for CHRNs and CHTs and expiration date, if they are indeed certified. Each of the three databases is updated weekly. If the name of a particular individual does not appear, those searching are prompted to a link to the Board headquarters email address to request a more updated search. Animal chambers have long been a part of hyperbaric medicines research efforts. More recently, animal chambers have been employed in a clinicaltreatment setting. This practice is growing considerable, and on an international scale. Some of the conditions suffered by our hyperbaric patients are also suffered by animals. One would expect, therefore, that these animals would derive benefits similar to those our patients enjoy. Already, however, there have been several fatal equine hyperbaric chamber fires. In order to enhance the practice safety and clinical effectiveness of these animal chambers, the NBDHMT is in the process of developing a hyperbaric certification standard for veterinary technologists. A working group made up of NBDHMT Board members and veterinary specialists has been formed. Their remit is to create a training course and certification examination that will result in the awarding of a Certification in Hyperbaric Veterinary Technology CHVT. It is intended that this new NBDHMT certification will be available in the latter part of 2. On a final note, certification and recertification fees for CHRNs will increase on January 1, 2. The Board will accept payment at the current rates for 2. December 3. 1 of this year. For those of you due to recertify in the early part of 2. December will represent a saving of approximately 2. September 2. 00. 9Certification examination schedules are at an all time high. From January through July of this year, testing was scheduled at 1. For the remainder of the current year 1. CHTCHRN applicants registered to date. Independent of these impressive numbers is a steady volume of diver medics being certified. Given the above, I thought that you might be interested to learn of the total number of those who have been certified since the inception of the NBDHMT.