ALLMedicine™ Drowning Center

Nov 27th, 2022 - Drowning is a serious public health concern. Low-and-middle-income countries are the most affected by drowning, as they carry 90% of the global drowning burden. The purpose of this retrospective epidemiological study is to provide an overview of f...

Nov 24th, 2022 - Fatal and non-fatal drowning is a significant public health issue, which disproportionately impacts children and young people. In Australia, the highest fatal and non-fatal drowning rates occur in children under five years of age. To date, little ...

Nov 22nd, 2022 - Through the study of death characteristics and trend prediction, it is hoped that key populations, regions and seasons can be identified, thereby providing evidence support for the efficient prevention and control management of unintentional injur...

Nov 19th, 2022 - The number of diatoms detected in the kidneys and liver varies considerably when comparing various reports, but the reason remains unclear. We previously showed that the reuse of Kjeldahl flasks is susceptible to generating false positives; false-...

Nov 12th, 2022 - Plastic can be used for many things and at the same time is the most versatile material in our modern world. However, the uncontrolled and unprecedented use of plastic comes to its end. The global ban on plastic brings significant changes in techn...

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...

Oct 6th, 2022 - Once enrolled, children will be randomized to one of three groups. Group A will receive the intervention right away. Group B will use a waitlist control for 10 weeks, then will receive the intervention. Group C will be a control group, and will be...

Oct 3rd, 2022 - The training concerns courses with theoretical knowledge and practical skills related to first aid. Taking into account children's cognitive and psychological development, students will be trained in the following topics: calling an ambulance, man...

Sep 29th, 2022 - OHCA of non-cardiac origin is a heterogenous subgroup within a range of causes including trauma, electrocution, asphyxia (external), drowning and drug overdose. This classification of presumed etiology accounts for up to 40% of all OHCA's, but var...

Aug 24th, 2022 - The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an acute lung injury that can be triggered by pulmonary (direct lung injury) and extrapulmonary (indirect lung injury) etiologies. Pediatric ARDS (pARDS) occurs in approximately 3% of children admi...

Aug 12th, 2022 - Pediatric cardiac arrest is a high-risk, low-frequency event associated with death or severe neurological sequelae in survivors. Most occur in the prehospital setting. Despite advances in resuscitation science and survival improvement over the las...

Nov 23rd, 2022 - After a grueling few years responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, turnover, burnout, and hospital vacancy rates have all increased among nurses. With hospitals drowning under a sea of patients due in part to an earlier than usual surge in respirator...

Nov 18th, 2022 - (For more Reuters Special Reports, click on) Nov 18 (Reuters) - A year after moving to Bridge City, Texas, 8-year-old Samuel Kulovitz thought his life couldn’t get any worse. He had made no friends in the swampy oil refinery town and spent most of...

Oct 18th, 2022 - Physicians Talking: Why Doctors May Act Poorly Physicians don't usually behave badly at work or in public, according to a Medscape survey of doctors. But when they do, it's because of personal arrogance or personal problems unrelated to work, acco...

Oct 12th, 2022 - Edward Green, who is in his late 20s, sought emergency room care at MLK Community Hospital in South Los Angeles in April after running out of his medication for bipolar disorder. The voices in his head "start being angry with me and tell me negati...

Oct 6th, 2022 - Note that some links may require subscriptions. A Maryland physician with a suspended medical license due to recent allegations of sexual misconduct was killed and dismembered. His son has been charged with the murder. (Baltimore Sun) The U.S. put...