Drowning Accidents in a Spanish Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: An Observational Study for 29 Years.

Introduction: Drowning is one of the most frequent accidents in children. We aimed to describe demographic and epidemiological characteristics of drowned children who required admission to a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) to identify risk factors to guide possible preventive measures to avoid severe drowning.

Methods: We conducted an observational study for 29 years (retrospective between 1991 and 2004; prospective between 2005 and 2019) that included all children (0-15 years old) requiring PICU admission after drowning.

Severe carbon monoxide poisonings in scuba divers: Asia-Pacific cases and causation.

Aim: Reports of fatal incidents in recreational scuba divers from carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning are rare. This study aimed to identify scuba fatalities in the Asia-Pacific region caused by breathing-gas contamination to better understand the likely sources of contamination and reduce such preventable deaths.

Methods: A hand search of Project Stickybeak reports, subsequent Australian fatality series reports, and of published New Zealand diving fatality reports and associated data was conducted, as well as key word searches of the National Coronial Information System for scuba fatalities in Australia and New Zealand.

Genotypic diversity and antifungal susceptibility of Scedosporium species from clinical settings in China.

Background: Scedosporium species have drawn significant interest as inhabitants of polluted soil and water and as cause of high mortality in near-drowning patients. So far, most cases have been reported from Europe and Australia, while knowledge on their prevalence and genotypic diversity from Asia is scant.

Objectives: To increase the knowledge of the genetic diversity and in vitro antifungal susceptibility of Scedosporium species involved in human infections from China.

Reflected near-infrared photography: Digging deeper into post-mortem examination.

Aim: This research aims to investigate the utility of the Near Infra-Red (NIR) photographic technique in visualizing forensic evidence in a post-mortem examination.

Material And Methods: A total of twenty-six deceased (male: n = 15; female: n = 11) were brought to the Mortuary of King George's Medical University, Chowk, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India (226003), and were used to investigate the applicability of the human visible spectrum (HVS) & near-infrared photography. In the investigation, a modified Nikon D5300 crop-framed digital single-lens reflex camera was used for NIR Photography in combination with a Micro-Nikkor 105 mm, f/2.

The prevalence of non-accidental trauma among children with polytrauma: A nationwide level-I trauma centre study.

Objective: We aimed to investigate the prevalence and characteristics of non-accidental trauma (NAT) in children with polytrauma treated at level-I trauma centres (TC).

Summary Of Background: Data 6-10% Of children who present at the emergency department with injuries, sustain polytrauma. Polytrauma may result from either accidental (AT) or NAT, i.

Fatal pulmonary infection in a patient after near-drowning: A case report.

Background And Purpose: spp. is a saprophytic fungus that may cause invasive pulmonary infection due to the aspiration of contaminated water in both immunosuppressed and immunocompetent hosts.

Case Report: Herein, we report a fatal case of pulmonary infection caused by species associated with a car crash and near-drowning in a sewage canal.

Pediatric submersion injuries: emergency care and resuscitation.

Drowning and submersion injuries are highly prevalent, yet preventable, causes of pediatric mortality and morbidity. Prehospital care should focus on restoring normal ventilation and circulation as quickly as possible to limit the extent of hypoxic insult. Diagnostic testing for symptomatic patients may include blood glucose level, arterial blood gas level, complete blood count, electrolyte levels, chest radiography, and cardiorespiratory monitoring with pulse oximetry and a rhythm strip.

infection of the lumbar vertebrae: A case report.

Background: () is a clinically rare and aggressive fungus mainly found in contaminated water, wetlands, decaying plants, stagnant water, and potted plants in hospitals. The lung, bone, joint, eye, brain, skin, and other sites are easily infected, and there is a marked risk of misdiagnosis. There have been few case reports of infection by of the lumbar vertebrae; most reports have focused on infection of the lung.

Rapid Diagnosis of Central Nervous System Scedosporiosis by Specific Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction Applied to Formalin-Fixed, Paraffin-Embedded Tissue.

is a typical mold causing cerebral abscesses, often after near-drowning. Infections are associated with high morbidity and mortality due to diagnostic challenges including the need for prolonged incubation of cultures. In addition, histopathological differentiation from other filamentous fungi, including may not be possible, excluding early specific diagnosis and targeted therapy.

A surprising complication of breast augmentation surgery.

Infections caused by opportunistic fungal organisms such as spp have been increasingly recognized over the last few decades. Most affected patients are immunocompromised or critically ill, but spp infections have also been described in immunocompetent patients, such as localized disease from direct inoculation or in near-drowning events. We describe a case of a patient with no known underlying immune impairment who experienced significant infection with at both sites of breast augmentation.

Dynamic changes of the hemoglobin index during resuscitation in patients with out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest due to freshwater drowning: A retrospective observational study.

Background: The hemoglobin index (HbI) represents the amount of hemoglobin, which reflects the regional tissue blood volume. The HbI is calculated by a regional oxygen saturation monitor. In freshwater drowning, inhaled water is immediately absorbed into the blood causing hemodilution.

Combination therapy with levofloxacin and cefepime to treat severe respiratory infection due to after a near-drowning accident in river water.

Background: spp. are gram-negative anaerobic rods that are mainly found in water. Respiratory infections due to sp.

Hemolysis as Cause of Hemodialysis Blood Leak Alarm: Case Study of a Patient with Freshwater Near-Drowning.

Hemolysis may be an infrequent cause of hemodialysis blood leak alarms. We report the case of an unresponsive adult male who was placed on hemodialysis with a high-flux dialyzer. Within five minutes, the blood leak alarm sounded.

Fetal heart rate mirrors maternal temperature during posterior fossa craniotomy: a case report.

While it is well known that maternal temperature affects fetal heart rate, the exact relationship is not well described. The circumstances accompanying most cases of maternal hypothermia and rewarming (e.g.

Angiotensin II for Near Drowning: A Case Series.

Unlabelled: This case series describes the effect of angiotensin II administration on hemodynamics in patients with parenchymal lung injury due to submersion injury.

Case Summary: A 33-year-old female and a 72-year-old female were both brought to the emergency department after incidents of near drowning. Upon arrival to the emergency department, both patients were hemodynamically unstable and were eventually intubated for airway protection.

FNG-IE: an improved graph-based method for keyword extraction from scholarly big-data.

Keyword extraction is essential in determining influenced keywords from huge documents as the research repositories are becoming massive in volume day by day. The research community is drowning in data and starving for information. The keywords are the words that describe the theme of the whole document in a precise way by consisting of just a few words.

Pigmentibacter ruber gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel bacterium of the family Silvanigrellaceae isolated from human blood.

A Gram-negative, aerobic, non-motile, pleomorphic, red-pigmented bacterium, designated HNSRY-1, was isolated from the blood sample of a near drowning patient in Republic of China. Strain HNSRY-1 grew at 15-37 °C (optimum, 35 °C), with pH 6.0-8.

Neurological complications of syncope and sudden cardiac arrest.

Syncope is very common and usually comes with enough warning for the person to assume a safer position rather than fall in a potentially dangerous way. Syncope may be associated with pregnancy, for example, but we rarely encounter significant injury related to the potential for an associated fall. In the elderly, however, there are often comorbid factors such as delayed reaction time and other aspects of cognitive impairment, along with gait instability, that can affect the defensive reflexes to the point that brain injury, including subdural or epidural hematoma, is not uncommonly encountered.

Safe On-Boat Resuscitation by Lifeguards in COVID-19 Era: A Pilot Study Comparing Three Sets of Personal Protective Equipment.

Introduction: On-boat resuscitation can be applied by lifeguards in an inflatable rescue boat (IRB). Due to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-COV-2) and recommendations for the use of personal protective equipment (PPE), prehospital care procedures need to be re-evaluated. The objective of this study was to determine how the use of PPE influences the amount of preparation time needed before beginning actual resuscitation and the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR; QCPR) on an IRB.