Medical Issues and Treatment
This theme addresses medical issues, resuscitation, and treatment, and includes papers that:
- Advance resuscitation guidelines
- Advance medical treatment of drowning patients
- Analyse the impact of neurological and other outcomes following non-fatal drowning
- Outline systems, case reports and best practice standards for aeromedical rescue
- Explore the role of pre-existing medical conditions in drowning
- Explore first responder mental health
- Outline approaches to Resuscitation, first aid and response training for lifeguards and other rescuers, including advanced training and education for medical providers
The WCDP committee have released the Coastal Safety accepted papers, take a look below. More papers to follow.
Disclaimer: papers were correct at the time of publishing. Please note, circumstances may change beyond the control of the organisers, which may necessitate substitutions or alterations to the conference program.
| Presenting | Title of Submission | Decision |
| Ogilvie Thom | Does on scene oxygen therapy prior to the arrival of Emergency Medical Services improve outcomes from resuscitation of drowning? A case match analysis of 216 patients. | Oral |
| MASASHI KASAHARA | Injury and Illness Surveillance of Lifesavers in Lifesaving Competitions | Poster |
| Niklas Breindahl | Evaluation of a critical incident management system on mental health in lifeguard organisations: A retrospective study | Oral |
| Kasper Bitzer | The role of accidental hypothermia in drowning-related out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A Danish six-year retrospective cohort study | Oral |
| Allart Venema | Manual versus mechanical chest compressions on a lifeboat in different wave heights | Oral |
| Ana Catarina Queiroga | PTSD following a nonfatal drowning in a professional rescuer | Oral |
| Samantha Fien | The neglected domain of mental health in adolescent surf lifesavers | Oral |
| David Reid | An exploration of first aid provided to beachgoers on Australian beaches | Oral |
| João Claudio Campos Pereira | The development of competences for the care of drowned patients, using the flipped classroom, in a medical course | Poster |
| Samantha Fien | Developing a national survey to understand mental health in Surf Life Saving | Oral |
| Riley Huntley | Review of pulse check and BVM skills among lifeguards: Practices based on evidence-based research or expert consensus? | Poster |
| Riccardo Ristori | FASD Ultrasound (Focused Assessment with Sonography for drowning), proposal for decision making | Poster |
| Danielle Taylor | Pre-Existing Medical Conditions: A Silent Contributor to Adult Drowning | Oral |
| Alexandre Tadeia | Positioning the conscious drowning victim | Oral |
| Md shafkat Hossain | Communities’ immediate practice and health seeking behavior for child drowning cases: qualitative findings from the most drowning prone areas of Bangladesh. | Oral |
| Zobaer Alam | A case series of 18 hospitalized under-five non-fatal drowning victims in rural Bangladesh | Oral |
| Joost Bierens | The position of lifeguards in the updated 2023 drowning resuscitation guidelines | Oral |
| Md. Abu Talab | Title: Burden of treatment cost for fatal and non-fatal drowning in Bangladesh: Findings from a national population-based survey | Oral |
| RENAN ZANELA | Technical Knowledge about Basic Life Support for Drowned Persons by Doctors, Nurses and Nursing Technicians | Poster |
| Mohammad Hossain | Impact of community-based first responder development for the management of drowning casualties in rural areas of Bangladesh | Poster |
| Zobaer Alam | Health care seeking behavior of under-five non-fatal child drownings in rural Bangladesh | Poster |
| Md. Abu Talab | Title: First aid practices and health seeking behaviors of caregivers for non-fatal drowning in Bangladesh: Sharing experiences from a national population-based survey | Poster |
| João Paulo | Water rescue: suggestion of new terminology | Poster |
| Paulo Filho | Immunological aspects to the patient from drowning: an understanding for efficient treatment | Poster |
| Paulo Nunes | Potential risks of pathogen transmission in mouth-to-mouth ventilation in drowned patients: a mini-review | Poster |