Acute kidney injury following immersion or near-drowning is rarely described and no data from Malaysia have been found. We report a case of acute kidney injury following a near-drowning event. A 20-year-old man who recovered from near-drowning in a swimming pool 5 days earlier presented to our clinic with abdominal pain, anorexia, nausea and polyuria. Dipstick urinalysis showed a trace of blood...

The advantage of detecting diatoms in bone marrow (diatom test), is that it could be used in coming to a con­ clusion about suspected death by drowning in severely putrefied bodies where the usual signs of drowning are not present (1). However, the diatom test is controversial, with opponents and champions (2). According to some the diatom test provides the most reliable test of death by drowni...

CONTEXT Drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury death among children ages 1 to 19 years. Details about the specific site of submersion are important for implementation of primary prevention efforts, but are not routinely available from national data. OBJECTIVES To provide national data about the specific sites of drowning among US children and to examine site-specific dro...

Drowning physiology relates to two different events: immersion (upper airway above water) and submersion (upper airway under water). Immersion involves integrated cardiorespiratory responses to skin and deep body temperature, including cold shock, physical incapacitation, and hypovolemia, as precursors of collapse and submersion. The physiology of submersion includes fear of drowning, diving re...

A body recovered from the water does not necessarily imply that death was due to drowning. The diagnosis of drowning is discussed together with the significance of the "diatom" and biochemical tests.

The pathological findings of drowning are variable and non-specific. Petechial hemorrhages involving the periorbital region and the conjunctiva have been described in many causes of death, but are thought to be exceedingly uncommon in cases of drowning. However, such studies have not specifically addressed the pediatric population. The current study retrospectively examined 79 cases of accident...

OBJECTIVES To gain an in-depth understanding of people's perception of causes and their concepts of prevention of childhood drowning in rural Bangladesh. DESIGN A qualitative study and focus group discussion (FGD) was adopted. SETTING A rural community in Bangladesh. PARTICIPANTS FGDs were conducted with mothers of children aged under 5 years, adolescent male and female students, fathers ...

Non-accidental bath drowning is an infrequently reported form of child abuse. Details of 44 children who suffered from drowning or near drowning in the bath were analysed from a two year (1988-9) UK study to investigate factors that might point to abuse. Cases of near drowning were notified through the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit inquiry system and drowning cases from the Office of Pop...

INTRODUCTION Worldwide, children under the age of 5 years are at particular risk of drowning. Responding to this need requires the development of evidence-informed drowning prevention strategies. Historically, drowning prevention strategies have included denying access, learning survival skills and providing supervision, as well as education and information which includes the use of mass media....

We present in this paper a camera-based system for detecting drowning incidents in a swimming pool at the earliest possible stage. The system consists of two main parts: a vision component which can reliably detect and track swimmers in spite of large scene variations of monitored pool areas, and an event-inference module which parses observation sequences of swimmer features for possible drown...