CMS Staff &
Faculty
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Dr. Rafael Diaz,
MD is a Medical Director, and resident physician, for
the Cornerstone Medical Services and the EMT, DMT, and
Remote
Medic Programs.
Besides a general
practitioner, Dr. Diaz has provided treatments for
thousands of serious diver injuries in the 15 years he
has been on the staff of CMS. He completed his medical
training in 1990 at the Medical College of Honduras,
Tegucigalpa. Dr. Diaz has also studied diving medicine
on "El CRIS, Barcelona, Spain with Dr. Desolaa. He is
also a PADI Diving Instructor.
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Dr.
Paul Gale,
MD is also a resident physician and Medical Director for
Cornerstone.
A
graduate of the Medical College of Honduras,
Tegucigalpa, he is a general practitioner with a
background in Pediatrics. He is one of the
primary assist instructors in the DMT program. Dr. Gale is also
a minister in the Bay Islands.
Dr. Gale has been with the Cornerstone Clinic and
Chamber for the past 6 years. He has also been
involved in the treatment of thousands of diving related
injuries. Most of these injuries are Type II DCS and
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Sadly, Dr.
Delia,
our most recent member of the Cornerstone team,
passed away Monday August 3, 2009. She was a wonderful
and lovely person who will be sorely missed by all those
who had the privilege of having her touch their lives.
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Commander Ronald Ellerman,
is a CMS staff Diver Medical Technician and Medical
Instructor. He has over 37 years of service as a
professional firefighter and EMS provider with extensive field, and
teaching experience in EMS, Special Operations, Rescue,
commercial and public safety diving. He holds
certifications as an Advanced DMT Instructor, Wisconsin EMT Instructor/Coordinator,
a NREMT Examiner, Advanced PreHospital Trauma Life
Support Provider (PHTLS), AHA CPR Instructor Trainer, Pediatric
Education for Prehospital Professionals Provider (PEPP),
Advanced Medical Life Support Provider (AMLS), Advanced
Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), and Fire Service Instructor. He is also certified
as a PADI Master, Inland Commercial, Public Safety, and
Mixed Gas Diver. Commander Ellerman has been affiliated with CMS for
over 13 years. |
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Hyperbaric
Chamber Facilities
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The Cornerstone Clinic and Chamber is located on the
grounds of Anthony’s Key Resort.
The Clinic is equipped with a 52" multi-lock chamber,
which is utilized to treat patients and to provide
practical chamber operations experience to DMT students. |
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Quite often, the Cornerstone Chamber is used to treat as
many as 4 injured divers at a time, utilizing both the
inner and outer locks. Chamber operations are conducted
around the clock if necessary. This is a 24 / 7
operation.
A new Clinic and Chamber building has been
completed on the grounds of Anthony's Key Resort. This
new building provides us with 2 patient exam rooms,
X-ray room, Ultrasound room, an Emergency Room, a
pharmacy and a full laboratory, along with our
hyperbaric chamber. |
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The Cornerstone Clinic
The Cornerstone Clinic was originally
opened in 1985 on the grounds of Anthony's Key Resort. The
deck decompression chamber was housed in a 20' by 20' building with
one exam table and a desk. Staffed by two doctors and an
EMT/Dive Medic, this facility provided the primary care to the
Honduran Miskito Indian lobster divers stricken with Type II DCS.
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The chamber in the
old clinic. To place a patient on a backboard
into this chamber, the outside doors of the clinic
needed to be opened because of lack of room at the
chamber end. |
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The OLD examination
area. |
Our pharmacy and
materials storage in the old clinic. The lone
sink is seen behind the chamber operator chair. |
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The new Cornerstone
Clinic and Hyperbaric Chamber facility was completed
in 2003. |
The new emergency and
procedures room. |
Defibrillators,
12-Lead ECG, patient monitors, CPAP, patient
ventilator, cardiac crash carts are all part of the
new clinic. |
Two identical
examination rooms are also located in the current
building. |
Classrooms
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The didactic and practical skills portion of
the DMT program are conducted in the classroom
facilities on the grounds of
Anthony's Key Resort.
These classrooms have been recently remodeled to
provide more room and functionality.
These classrooms are air conditioned and equipped
with the latest audio/visual and computer technology.
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A full inventory of advanced training manikins
for the Emergency Medical Training and Diver Medical
Technician Programs are maintained at the
school. A medical library for the students is provided. It
contains numerous textbooks on diving medicine and
emergency medical care that can be checked-out by the
students for further study and research. |
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Students will use the most modern equipment
and training manikins during their training at
Cornerstone Medical Services including adult, child, and
infant CPR manikins, Defibrillation / Intubation
Manikins with full EKG computers, Pneumothorax manikins, Needle
Cricothyrotomy manikins,
IV arms, IO manikins, Suture arm and leg manikins, Foley Catheter
manikins, anatomical models, and all equipment currently
available on a standard ALS ambulance.
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Contact
Hyperbaric Training Associates
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