4041.0 ICEHS Special Session: Water-Related Injuries

Tuesday, November 10, 2009: 8:30 AM
Oral
This session highlights the theme of this year’s APHA, and focus on water-related injuries. This Special Session will feature research describing injury deaths due to drowning and flash floods; and the risk and distribution nonfatal swimming-related injuries seen in the emergency department. Participants will also learn about how to prevent these water-related injuries, especially related to drowning.
Session Objectives: 1. Describe the epidemiology of fatal and nonfatal water-related injuries. 2. Explain regional differences in the determinants and distribution of drowning-related deaths. 3. Identify awareness of and efforts to prevent water-related injury deaths.
Moderator:
Sara B. Newman, DrPH, MCP

8:30 AM
Swimming related injuries among children age 0-9 years treated in emergency departments, NEISS-AIP 2001-2006
Karin A. Mack, PhD
8:45 AM
Fatalities Related to Flash Floods Arising from Thunderstorms
Thomas J. Songer, PhD, MSc
  
9:00 AM
Drowning in the desert: Medical examiner-investigated drownings in New Mexico, 1996-2006
Sarah L. Lathrop, DVM, PhD and Veena D. Singh, MD
  
9:15 AM
Evaluating Awareness and Behaviors Surrounding Drowning Prevention Practices in Broward County Florida
Deborah A. Mulligan, MD FAAP FACEP and Michelle A. Doldren, MPH
  
9:30 AM
Drowning deaths in New Jersey, 1999-2007
Bretta Jacquemin, MPH
  

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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