ALLMedicine™ Drowning Center

May 18th, 2022 - The proportion of fatal nontraffic injuries that involve high levels of alcohol use or alcohol intoxication was assessed by cause of injury to generate alcohol-attributable fractions. Updated alcohol-attributable fractions can contribute to improv...

May 18th, 2022 - Given limited resources for injury prevention, it is essential to determine which mechanisms of injury to target to provide the most benefit to the largest proportion of the population. We developed objective, evidence-based injury prevention prio...

May 16th, 2022 - Young Patient After Drowning.|2022|Lamour D,Turchiaro ML,Clayton LM,Solano JJ,|

May 11th, 2022 - We Are Drowning.|2022|Halloran D,|psychology,psychology,

May 10th, 2022 - Drowning accounts for hundreds of preventable deaths in Canada every year, but the impact of preexisting medical conditions on the likelihood of death from drowning is not known. We aimed to describe the prevalence of pre-existing medical conditio...

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...

Apr 29th, 2022 - Burns are an important cause of injury to young children, being the third most frequent cause of injury resulting in death behind motor vehicle accidents and drowning. Burn injuries account for the greatest length of stay of all hospital admission...

Apr 5th, 2022 - Sudden and unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) has become a major issue for patients with epilepsy and their physicians. SUDEP is a nontraumatic and non-drowning death in patients with epilepsy, unrelated to a documented status epilepticus, in wh...

Mar 25th, 2022 - SUDEP stands for sudden unexplained death in epilepsy; a witnessed or unwitnessed, non-traumatic and non-drowning death occurring in benign circumstances, in a person with epilepsy with or without evidence of a seizure and excluding documented sta...

Jul 22nd, 2021 - Little data is currently available on the type of pathogen responsible for respiratory infections following drowning. Many environmental germs present in seawater are described as difficult to culture on standard media but are potentially pathogen...

Nov 30th, 2020 - Cardiac arrest (CA) is an important cause of mortality and morbidity in pediatric patients. Yearly incidence of CA is 7- 8 cases per 100000 children. Hypoxia is the leading cause of OHCA with up to 1/3 being of respiratory origin, and drowning in ...

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 ...

Dec 8th, 2021 - Motivated, calm, and high-functioning. On the surface, you are the epitome of success. You arrive at work early. You are driven, meet all deadlines and, in fact, excel at tasks. Not only are you successful in your work, but also you appear well pu...

Oct 9th, 2021 - The likelihood that a child will survive a near-drowning without long-term damage is substantially greater if a bystander attempts a rescue, even if that person doesn't perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), according to new research present...