Handbook on Drowning is not only a rich source of focused information, but also a stimulant for initiatives on how best to reduce the annual number of drownings, in individual cases and during disasters, and how to improve the outcome of drowing victims.

Contents

History

• Brief history of Maatschappij tot Redding van Drenkelingen (The Society to Rescue People from Drowning)
• Two Centuries of Searching for Safe Lifeboats
• The History of Resuscitation
• The World Congress on Drowning: A Move Towards the Future

The Epidemiology of Drowning

• Definition of Drowning
• Methods for Estimating the Burden of Drowning
• Availability and Quality of Data to Assess the Global Burden of Drowning
• The Global Burden of Drowning
• Risk Factors for Drowning
• Review of Literature on Available Strategies for Drowning Prevention
• Occupational Drownings

The Prevention of Drowning

• Purposes and Scope of Prevention of Drowning
• Risk Assessment and Perception
• Prevention of Drowning in the Home and Garden
• Prevention of Drowning in Home Pools
• The Vigilance of Beach Patrols
• Swimming Abilities, Water Safety Education and Drowning Prevention
• National and Community Campaigns

Rescue - Organisational Aspects: Planning, Training and Preparation

• Rescue Organisations: Paid or Volunteers?
• Lifeguard Effectiveness
• Quality Assessment and Risk Monitoring of Lifesaving
• Beach Hazards and Risk Assessment of Beaches
• Training Standards for In-Water Rescue Techniques
• Training and Equipping Rescue Personnel for Flood Rescue
• Learning from Computer Simulations
• Data Registration for Lifesaving Organisations
• Risk Management in Training of Rescue Techniques
• Life Saving as an Academic Career: International Perspectives
• Fund-Raising for Lifesaving
• Lifesaving in Developing Countries

Rescue – Rescue Techniques

• Patterns of Wave and Surf
• Water Safety Signs and Beach Safety Flags
• Lifeguard Surveillance and Scanning: Past, Present, Future
• Trends in Sea Rescue and Open Water Search Techniques
• Lifejackets and Other Lifesaving Appliances
• Self-Rescue
• Submerged Vehicle Rescue
• Horizontal and Other Rescue Techniques: Practical Aspects
• Ice Rescue
• Rescues Under Difficult Circumstances
• Rigid Inflatable Boats
• Inshore Inflatable Rescue Boat Injuries with Implications for New Designs
• Development and Use of Personal Watercraft in Aquatic Rescue Operations
• Alternatives for Rescue Boats
• Spinal Injury: Prevention, Immobilisation and Extrication from the Aquatic Environment
• Injuries to Lifesavers
• Management of Physical and Psychological Responses During Administration of CPR to a Drowned Person
• Psychological Care After CPR and Rescue

Resuscitation

• Consensus and Recommendations
• The Critical Role of Lay Persons and Their Actions in Drowning Incidents
• Basic Life Support for Drowning Victims
• Automated External Defibrillators in the Aquatic Environment
• Positioning the Drowning Victim
• First Aid Courses for the Aquatic Environment
• Advance Life Support
• Long QT Syndrome and Drowning
• Paediatric Considerations in Drowning
• Termination of Resuscitation Efforts in Drowning
• Unusual Circumstances of Drowning
• A Case Report of an Extreme Situation
• A Case Report of a Successful Resuscitation from Accidental Hypothermia of 22°C and Submersion with Circulatory Arrest
• A Case Report of 22-Minute Submersion in Warm Water Without Sequelae
• Recommended Guidelines for Uniform Reporting of Data from Drowning: The Utstein-Style

Hospital Treatment

• Treatment Protocols: Emergency Room
• Treatment Protocols: Intensive Care Department
• Paediatric Considerations
• Aspiration
• Management of ARDS
• Risk Factors and Treatment of Pneumonia
• Surfactant Therapy
• Cardiovascular Changes
• Classification Systems

Brain Resuscitation in the Drowning Victim

• Consensus and Recommendations
• Prehospital and Emergency Department Management of the Drowning Victim
• Intensive Care Management of the Drowning Victim
• Paediatric Considerations
• Neuromonitoring in the Intensive Care Unit for the Drowning Victim
• Neurochemical Markers of Brain Injury
• Post-hypoxic Treatment with Pharmacologic Agents
• Animal Experimentation on Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation Relevant for Drowning
• Future Research Questions

Immersion Hypothermia

• Consensus and Recommendations
• The Physiology of Cooling in Cold Water
• Body Cooling, Modelling and Risk Assessment
• Rescue Collapse Following Cold Water Immersion
• Prehospital Management of Immersion Hypothermia
• Hospital Rewarming of Hypothermic Victims
• Hospital Treatment of Victims in Cardiorespiratory Arrest
• Fluid Management During Treatment of Immersion Hypothermia
• Acid–Base Management During Accidental Hypothermia
• An International Data-Registration for Accidental and Immersion Hypothermia

Water-Related Disasters

• Consensus and Recommendations
• Disasters at Sea
• ‘Herald of Free Enterprise’
• Decision Support System for Optimising a SAR Fleet Plan to Rescue Large Numbers of Passengers
• Linking Sea and Land: Essential Elements in Crises Decisions for Water-Related Disasters
• Drowning in Floods: An Overview of Mortality Statistics for Worldwide Floods
• Measures to Prevent The Netherlands from Flooding
• Controlling the Risk of Flood-Related Drowning
• The Safety Chain During Floods
• Planning of the Mass Emergency Response to Floods in the Netherlands
• Current Trends in Swift Water, Moving Water and Flood Rescue Response

Breath-Hold, SCUBA and Hose Diving

• The Underlying Physics and Applied Physiology 591
• Diving Techniques
• Epidemiology of Drowning While Diving
• Physical, Mental and Medical Fitness
• Causation of Drowning Accidents in Relation to Training
• Introducing Children to Diving
• Underwater Self-Rescue and Assisted Rescue: Training to Cope With Emergencies
• Immediate Treatment of the Diver Who Almost Drowned
• Accident Investigation and Autopsy
• Diving Accident Investigations
• The Investigation of SCUBA Diving Fatalities

Investigation of Drowning Accidents

• Behaviour of Dead Bodies in Water
• Search and Recovery in Near-Shore Waters
• Search Techniques
• Homicidal Drowning
• The Approach of the Pathologist to the Diagnosis of Drowning
• Accident Investigations in Drowning
• Legal Aspects and Litigation in Aquatic Lifesaving
• Legal Claims in Drowning Cases
• The M/S Estonia Disaster and the Treatment of Human Remains
• Maritime Accident Investigations

Index

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