ALLMedicine™ Drowning Center

Feb 3rd, 2023 - We describe a case of pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection in an immunocompetent pediatric patient after a hot tub near drowning event with a literature review of pediatric MAC-associated disease after hot tub exposure.

Jan 27th, 2023 - Drowning in seaweed: How to stop invasive Sargassum.|2023|Barberton Z,|

Jan 26th, 2023 - Drowning is a significant public health challenge globally. In Africa and Ghana, drowning has remained a silent epidemic among poor communities. Limited evidence has challenged advances in drowning knowledge and prevention. While drowning deaths a...

Jan 26th, 2023 - 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...

Jan 23rd, 2023 - Unintentional injuries remain a leading cause of death for children and adolescents older than 1 year. Injury prevention has long been a cornerstone of anticipatory guidance. Previous studies have established the sustained efficacy of injury preve...

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...

Jan 26th, 2023 - 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...

Jan 19th, 2023 - 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...

Jan 18th, 2023 - 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...

Jan 17th, 2023 - Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is a severe type of lung injury that affects 10% of patients admitted to Intensive Care Units worldwide, with an unacceptably high mortality of up to 48% in those with the most severe form of the conditio...

Jan 10th, 2023 - 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...

Dec 7th, 2022 -   Emergencies happen anywhere, anytime, and sometimes physicians find themselves in situations in which they are the only ones who can help. Is There a Doctor in the House? is a new Medscape series telling these stories. In 2015, two crazy things ...

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...