2012/05/31 by David Szpilman, Joost J.L.M. Bierens, Anthony J. Handley +1 · 1 citation
Medicine · Engineering · Neuroscience · #Injury Epidemiology and Prevention #Traffic and Road Safety #Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
paper · pdf · doi:10.1056/nejmra1013317
openalex publication_date 2012/05/31 · openalex created_date 2022/05/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
A ccording to the World Health Organization (WHO), 0.7% of all deaths worldwide - or more than 500,000 deaths each year 1 - are due to unintentional drowning. 2 Since some cases of fatal drowning are not classified as such according to the codes of the International Classification of Disease, this number underestimates the real figures, even for high-income countries, 3 and does not include drownings that occur as a result of floods, tsunamis, and boating accidents.