Society for diving and hyperbaric medicine
| German Society for Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine e. V. (GTÜM) |
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| purpose | Association for diving and hyperbaric medicine |
| President: | Karin Hasmiller |
| Establishment date: | November 9, 1983 |
| Seat : |
Mainz Germany
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| Website: | www.gtuem.org |
The German Society for Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine e. V. (GTÜM, partly also GeTÜM ) is a German specialist society for diving medicine including hyperbaric medicine based in Mainz . The non-profit company, founded in 1983, creates medical guidelines for diving medical treatments and for the training of specialists in the field of hyperbaric medicine, especially hyperbaric oxygenation and diving fitness examinations . She is a member of the Working Group of Scientific Medical Societies .
The association is the leading specialist society for the diving accident guideline , which was last [outdated] in 2014 with the participation of eight other specialist societies and organizations from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The diving accident guideline is currently being revised.
structure
The GTÜM is managed by the executive board. He is elected at the regular general assembly, which takes place at least every three years.
The inner board consists of the president, the vice-president, the secretary, the treasurer and the president of the previous electoral term (past president). The inner board is responsible for a. monitoring the management of current business (office). The president, the vice-president and the secretary are authorized to represent, each two together.
The extended board consists of the members of the executive board, the Caisson editor and up to six advisory boards. Without voting rights, a member of the board of the Association of German Pressure Chamber Centers (VDD) also belongs to the extended board.
The GTÜM office is affiliated with the Murnau professional association accident clinic in Murnau am Staffelsee in Bavaria .
Previous presidents
- from 1983: Klaus Seemann (founding president)
- from 1987: Franz Gerstenbrand
- from 1990: Oskar F. Ehm
- from 1993: Joachim Pröhl
- from 1996: Dietmar Tirpitz
- from 1999: Ulrich van Laak
- from 2002: Armin Kemmer
- from 2005: Wilhelm Welslau (re-election in 2008, 2011, resigned from office in January 2012 for professional reasons)
- since January 20, 2012: Karin Hasmiller (regularly elected in 2014)
Publications
caisson
The Caisson ( French for ' caisson ') is the organ of the GTÜM and appears four times a year, around the middle of March, June, September and December. The occupational physician and past president Wilhelm Welslau is responsible for the editorial work.
Checklist for diving fitness
Together with the Austrian Society for Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine (ÖGTH), the GTÜM published the second, completely revised edition of the diving suitability checklist , which contains examination standards and recommendations for doctors (Gentner Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3- 87247-747-7 , 447 pages).
Other publications
Other publications deal, among other things, with hyperbaric oxygen therapy .
Web links
- Literature by and about the Society for Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine in the catalog of the German National Library
- Association website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Articles of Association of GTÜM e. V. GTÜM website, version of April 19, 2008, accessed on August 3, 2017.
- ↑ See also Mainz District Court, VR 3148.
- ↑ Guideline diving accident . AWMF - Association of Scientific Medical Societies , register number 072-001, created on October 1, 2014, originally valid until October 31, 2017, after a content review extended to October 1, 2019, S2k classification , accessed on April 11, 2018.
- ^ Board of the GTÜM . GTÜM website, as of January 1, 2015, accessed on August 3, 2017.
- ↑ Jochen Freier: Chronicle of the society . GTÜM website, accessed August 3, 2017.
- ↑ Caisson . GTÜM website, accessed August 3, 2017.