{"id":1538,"date":"2015-04-06T08:45:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T07:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2015-04-06T08:45:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T07:45:46","slug":"drowning-in-injury-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2015\/04\/06\/drowning-in-injury-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Drowning in injury prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living in the Sunshine State, water safety has always been important to our family. I remember learning how to rescue someone, and how to swim safely out of an ocean rip, as a young child. I grew up in a farming community, and my brothers and I always knew if we went near the dam we would be in for it.\u00a0I have also seen how resuscitation after drowning may not always the best option.<\/p>\n<p>Given it is school holidays, and given how popular our state is at this time of year, unfortunately we have seen some near misses &#8211; thank goodness they reached <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qt.com.au\/news\/man-pulled-surf-mooloolaba-near-drowning\/2597056\/\">these struggling swimmers <\/a>in time. The difference between drowning and surviving can be just seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Children are particularly vulnerable &#8211; during the last couple of weeks, a 15-month old drowned in the family pool; a\u00a0four-year old boy drowned in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au\/devastated-pacific-pines-parents-have-turned-off-their-sons-life-support\/story-fnj94hf2-1227252012197\">neighbour&#8217;s pool;\u00a0<\/a>a two-year-old boy drowned in the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gattonstar.com.au\/news\/toddler-drowns-lockyer-valley-dam\/2580771\/\"> family dam<\/a>.\u00a0<em>&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/queensland\/children-drown-west-of-brisbane-20150324-1m6igp.html\">figures showed five drownings in pools, seven in dams and two in waterways among children under eight since July 2014.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As an injury prevention researcher I firmly believe in preventing drownings and near-miss drownings is the best course of action we can take, and any research findings which help us take a holistic approach to preventing drownings spark my interest. In November 2014, the World Health Organization released its first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/mediacentre\/factsheets\/fs347\/en\/\"><em>Global report on drowning: preventing a leading killer<\/em><\/a>. with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcdp2015.org\/?\">World Conference on Drowning Prevention<\/a> to be held in Malaysia in November. 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