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Forensic Sci Int
January 2025
Department of Forensic Medicine, Section of Forensic Pathology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Diagnosing drowning as a cause of death remains complex in forensic pathology, demanding integration of autopsy findings, contextual evidence, and case-specific variables. This study systematically reviews literature on lung weights in adult drowning cases, analyzing data from 20 studies to evaluate lung weight as an evidentiary factor in the diagnosis of drowning deaths. Additionally, this study seeks to examine the impact of covariates such as water salinity (freshwater vs.
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January 2025
Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention Research Center, Department of Epidemiology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences School of Public Health and Safety, Tehran, Iran (the Islamic Republic of)
Background: Drowning is a serious and neglected public health threat, and prevention of drowning has a multisectoral nature and requires multidimensional research. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the spatio-temporal variation in fatal unintentional drowning rates among the Iranian population from 2005 to 2022.
Methods: In this repeated cross-sectional study, registry data were extracted from legal medicine organisations during 2005-2022.
Front Rehabil Sci
January 2025
iCan Shine, Inc., Miami, FL, United States.
Background: Drowning is a leading cause of death for children. Some populations of children with disabilities, such as children with autism, experience a health disparity in drowning when compared to peers without disabilities.
Objective: This study presents a secondary data analysis of the response to intervention for a 5-day adapted swim instruction program (iCan Swim) for children with disabilities ( = 164 participants) ages 3-18 years.
J Pak Med Assoc
January 2025
Department of Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Objective: To explore the different causes of sudden death among serving government employees.
Methods: The audit study was conducted at the Pathology Department of a tertiary care hospital Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Jhelum, Pakistan, and comprised data of all autopsies between January 2017 and June 2021. Sampling was done by non probability purposive sampling technique which requires no statistical method calculation.
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