Open AccessDrowning in children: Aseer Central Hospital experience, Southwestern Saudi Arabia
Author(s) -
Suliman Al-Fifi,
Medhat A Shabana,
Mohammed Zayed,
Ali M. Al-Binali,
Mohammed Alshehri
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of family and community medicine/maǧalaẗ ṭib al-usraẗ wa al-muǧtamaʼ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2229-340X
pISSN - 1319-1683
DOI - 10.4103/1319-1683.78632
Subject(s) - medicine , submersion (mathematics) , intensive care unit , retrospective cohort study , emergency medicine , pediatrics , poison control , injury prevention , medical emergency , surgery , intensive care medicine , mathematical analysis , mathematics , differentiable function
To study the reasons, magnitude and outcome of drowning following submersion in water of children admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in Aseer Province, Saudi Arabia.