Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Drowning

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 236-251

  Schmidt, Andrew C ^a   Sempsrott, Justin R ^b   Hawkins, Seth C ^c   Arastu, Ali S ^d   Cushing, Tracy A ^e   Auerbach, Paul S ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cold water submersion; drowning; hypothermia; immersion; submersion

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; DROWNING; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; RESCUE WORK; RESUSCITATION; SWIMMING; WILDERNESS MEDICINE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DROWNING; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; RESCUE WORK; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESUSCITATION; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SWIMMING; WILDERNESS MEDICINE;

EID: 84962339047     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wem.2015.12.019     Document Type: Article

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