TY - BOOK ID - 26185133 TI - Handbook on drowning: prevention, rescue, treatment PY - 2006 SN - 1280462140 9786610462148 3540296565 3540439730 9783540439738 PB - New York Springer DB - UniCat KW - Drowning KW - Prevention KW - Resuscitation KW - Accidents KW - Asphyxia KW - Death KW - Violent deaths KW - Causes KW - Hygiene. Public health. Protection KW - Pathological physiology. Pathogenesis KW - Emergency medicine. KW - Critical care medicine. KW - Anesthesiology. KW - Cardiology. KW - Forensic Medicine. KW - Emergency Medicine. KW - Intensive / Critical Care Medicine. KW - Forensic medicine KW - Injuries (Law) KW - Jurisprudence, Medical KW - Legal medicine KW - Forensic sciences KW - Medicine KW - Medical laws and legislation KW - Heart KW - Internal medicine KW - Anaesthesiology KW - Surgery KW - Intensive care KW - Intensive medicine KW - Emergency medicine KW - Intensive care units KW - Medicine, Emergency KW - Critical care medicine KW - Disaster medicine KW - Medical emergencies KW - Diseases KW - Forensic medicine. KW - Medical jurisprudence. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:26185133 AB - by Jan-Carel van Dorp The board of Governors of the Maatschappij tot Redding van Drenkelingen is happy to introduce this congress book, the fruit of much effort in recent years of many devoted researchers in the fields of prevention, rescue and treatment of drowned people. It is a compilation of the results of their successful studies, as laid down during the World Congress on Drowning held in Amsterdam on 26–28 June 2002. Background Through the ages death by drowning, like so many other causes, was accepted as a part of life. Water brings life, water takes life; burial follows. It was not until th th the 17 or even as late as the 18 century that it became apparent that people could be effectively rescued by bystanders, that many seemingly dead drowning victims only died after burial and that some of them could have been saved from this fate had they received medical attention. In Europe it was the so-called Age of Enlightenment, with changing attitudes towards fellow man and social initiatives underway, including the founding of charitable societies. At that time three noblemen in Amsterdam realised that too many victims who had fallen in the waters of Amsterdam were left to their fate and died. Hence, in 1767, they founded a society for the rescue of drowning victims, de Maatschappij tot Redding van Drenkelingen. Their initiative was widely applauded. In the years that followed other cities in Holland started their own initiatives. ER -