Episode 9 Drowning

Seeing as this month,  the 25th July is International Drowning Prevention Day, we decided to record an episode on Drowning. Viv, Steve and Joe speak about this topic which claims the lives of an estimated over a quarter of a million people each year globally.

 

World Health Organisation Drowning Statistic 27 April 2021

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/drowning#:~:text=Drowning%20is%20the%20process%20of,death%2C%20morbidity%20and%20no%20morbidity.

 

Water Safety Ireland Drowning Statistics

https://watersafety.ie/statistics/

 

Clinical staging of accidental hypothermia:The Revised Swiss SystemRecommendation of the International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine (ICAR MedCom). Martin E. Musi, Alison Sheets, Ken Zafren, Hermann Brugger, Peter Paal, Natalie Ho ̈lzli, Mathieu Pasquier

Elsevier, Resuscitation 162 (2021) 182-187

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.02.038

 

Prehospital Emergency Care Council Clinical Practice Guidelines Advanced Paramedic 2021 Edition

https://www.phecit.ie/Custom/BSIDocumentSelector/Pages/DocumentViewer.aspx?id=oGsVrspmiT0dOhDFFXZvIz0q5GYO7igwzB6buxHEgeDBS9BbdRZpZNKt9Y89hp%252bGEhGQslpxcyoYmdTLu78H9r76oZTnilm7mlbqDvzJntWlMW756bp2Sss33aOudBIeG7u3HIUnGBWa2plxYfgV6QyPTmWeB%252ff%252bOOyImbeSBq24mcIZtwFS%252fHI1d9DL61G9QbZ9GHMdoig%253d

 

Tipton, M. and Montgomery, H., 2021. The experience of drowning. Medico-Legal Journal, 90(1), pp.17-26.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00258172211053127

 

Bierens, J., Lunetta, P., Tipton, M. and Warner, D., 2016. Physiology Of Drowning: A Review. Physiology, 31(2), pp.147-166.

https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/physiol.00002.2015

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drowning