ALLMedicine™ Drowning Center

Aug 5th, 2022 - Trends in characteristics, management, and survival in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) were studied in the Swedish Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Registry (SCRR). The SCRR was used to study 106 296 cases ...

Aug 5th, 2022 - Drowning is a public health problem that is under-reported in Africa. We sought to evaluate the epidemiology and risk factors for drownings in Malawi. We performed a retrospective review of all pediatric (≤15 years old) patients who presented foll...

Aug 4th, 2022 - In children, injuries are the leading cause of death, a major source of disability, and the number one cause of death for children after the first year of life. The principles of injury prevention include surveillance, coalitions, communication, i...

Aug 4th, 2022 - Globally, drowning is a significant cause of preventable mortality and morbidity. The Eastern Mediterranean region (EMR) comprises 22 countries of extreme disparity in income and is a region impacted by conflict and migration. We systematically re...

Aug 2nd, 2022 - This study is a randomised control trial design. The study aim is to obtain 40 participants of varied roles, all healthcare professionals at the NHS RCHT. Participants will be asked to sign up to a session run in regular working hours at the RCHT ...

Nov 2nd, 2019 - The Wilderness Medical Society convened a panel to review available evidence supporting practices for acute management and treatment of drowning in out-of-hospital and emergency medical care settings. Literature about definitions and terminology, ...

Jul 19th, 2017 - Utstein-style guidelines use an established consensus process, endorsed by the international resuscitation community, to facilitate and structure resuscitation research and publication. The first "Guidelines for Uniform Reporting of Data From Drow...

Oct 17th, 2015 - This review comprises the most extensive literature search and evidence evaluation to date on the most important international BLS interventions, diagnostics, and prognostic factors for cardiac arrest victims. It reemphasizes that the critical lif...

Aug 2nd, 2022 - This study is a randomised control trial design. The study aim is to obtain 40 participants of varied roles, all healthcare professionals at the NHS RCHT. Participants will be asked to sign up to a session run in regular working hours at the RCHT ...

Jul 29th, 2022 - The overall goals are to determine whether patients with epilepsy who have the highest risk of SUDEP have an underlying genetic cardiovascular disorder. The investigators are seeking patients with epilepsy who have a high risk of SUDEP identified ...

Jul 11th, 2022 - Impaired consciousness during seizures has a major negative impact on quality of life for people with epilepsy. Consequences include risk of motor vehicle accidents, drowning, poor work and school performance, and social stigmatization. Impaired i...

Jun 21st, 2022 - Introduction Preventing drowning accidents is of great interest, as a large proportion of drowning events can be avoided by proper educative and targeted preventative measures. Yet, effective educative, preventative, rescue, and treatment interven...

Jun 2nd, 2022 - Introduction Preventing drowning accidents is of great interest, as a large proportion of drowning events can be avoided by proper educative and targeted preventive measures. Yet, effective educative, preventative, rescue and treatment interventio...

Jul 28th, 2022 - When it comes to maintaining board certification, physicians will have a new avenue. The National Board of Physicians and Surgeons (NBPAS), created in 2015 to give physicians an alternative to traditional recertification efforts, recently announce...

Jun 30th, 2022 - Six-year-old Grant Brown was not a strong swimmer. His mother told counselors that when she dropped him off on his first day at a North Carolina day camp. Carolynne Brown was assured the boy would be supervised. The lifeguard, a collegiate swimmer...

May 17th, 2022 - Dr Cody Dunne Preexisting medical conditions are associated with an increased risk for death by drowning, new data indicate. In a retrospective analysis of 4288 unintentional fatal drownings reported between 2007 and 2016, researchers found that a...

Apr 22nd, 2022 - Gun violence has become the leading killer of youth in the United States, rising by nearly 30% between 2019 and 2020. In 2020, 4357 children aged 1-19, or approximately six in 100,000, died from a gun-related injury, the researchers report, modest...

Feb 23rd, 2022 - After a near drowning, a young man was in a vegetative state. Physicians and social workers believed he should go to a nursing home because of his health needs and poor prognosis. His family, however, insisted on taking him home. "I felt that the ...