Abstract
Contributing factor leading to child drowning: Epidemiologic study over 15 years in Bihor County
Highlights
Drowning is a major public health problem worldwide, ranked third as the leading cause of unintentional injury death [1,2]
The research was performed at the Municipal Clinical Hospital Dr Gavril Curteanu Oradea and at the Bihor County Forensic Medicine Service and involved 86 pediatric patients with a diagnosis of drowning, of whom 62 deceased child patients and 24 surviving children
We found that almost half of the cases of drowning in children were located in the running water, which means that these children remained unattended
Summary
Drowning is a major public health problem worldwide, ranked third as the leading cause of unintentional injury death [1,2]. 372,000 people die annually from drowning [3,4] It is the leading cause of accidental death in the United States in children aged 1-14 years [5]. Among the relevant factors influencing the patients’ outcome after drowning, the following are renowned to have a major impact: age, site and circumstances of drowning, time of day, water temperature, period of submersion, associated injuries (head and neck especially), alcohol and drug abuse [7,8,9,10]. Some of these factors are analyzed in this study
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