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A 2-year prospective evaluation of airway clearance devices in foreign body air...
Dunne, CL; Viguers, K; Osman, S; Queiroga, AC; Szpilman, D; Peden, AEAim: To collect, analyze and report the first prospective, industry-independent, data on airway clearance devices as novel foreign body airway obstruction interventions. Methods: We recruited adult airway clearance device users between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2023 using a centralized website and email follow-up. The data collection tool captured patient, responder, situation, and outcome variables. Multi-step...
Surfers as aquatics rescuers in Portugal and Spain: Characteristics of rescues ...
De Oliveira, J; Lorenzo-Martínez, M; Barcala-Furelos, R; Queiroga, AC; Alonso-Calvete, AThe aim of this study was to analyze the rescues carried out by surfers from Portugal and Spain, their knowledge of rescue and resuscitation and their perception and risk behavior while surfing. An online survey was conducted in 2048 surfers from Portugal and Spain, with questions regarding the demographic characteristics, experience, perception and risk behavior of the surfers; rescues attended by the surfers ...
Prevalence of sport surfing-related injuries – A cross-sectional study of the P...
Barbosa Sequeira, J; Oliveira, J; Lorenzo Martínez, M; Barcala Furelos, R; Queiroga, AC; Moreira Pinto, JBackground Surfing is an increasingly popular recreational sport in Portugal. Although surfing-related injuries have short-term and long-term impact, little is known about their prevalence. Our purpose is to determine the lifetime prevalence of surfing-related injuries in the Portuguese surfing teachers (ST) population. Material and methods This is a cross-sectional study of the Portuguese ST population. An onl...
Injury prevention, drowning prevention habits and resuscitation knowledge of Po...
De Oliveira, J; Lorenzo-Martínez, M; Barcala-Furelos, R; Alonso-Calvete, A; Carracedo-Rodríguez, E; Moreira-Pinto, J; Queiroga, ACSurfing instructors can play an important role both in preventing sport related injuries and as first responders in water emergencies events. Even though Portugal is a predominantly oceanic country, with many people enrolling in water sports activities, we still don’t have a clear insight of the knowledge and educational practices of surfing instructors concerning both injury prevention and first response actio...
Trends in drowning mortality in Portugal from 1992 to 2019: comparing Global Bu...
Queiroga, AC; Seabra, R; Franklin, RC; Peden, AEIntroduction Imprecise data systems hinder understanding of drowning burden, even in high-income countries like Portugal, that have a well-implemented death certificate system. Consequently, national studies on drowning mortality are scarce. We aimed to explore drowning mortality in Portugal using national data and to compare these to Global Burden of Disease (GBD) estimates. Methods Data were obtained from the...
Closing the gap for drowning prevention across Europe
Peden, AE; Passmore, J; Queiroga, AC; Sweeney, R; Jagnoor, J[No abstract available]
Resuscitation of Drowned Persons during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Consensus Stat...
Queiroga, AC; Dunne, C; Manino, LA; Van Der Linden, T; Mecrow, T; Bierens, JImportance: Resuscitation is a niche example of how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected society in the long term. Those trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) face the dilemma that attempting to save a life may result in their own harm. This is most of all a problem for drowning, where hypoxia is the cause of cardiac arrest and ventilation is the essential first step in reversing the situation. Objective...
Work-life prevalence of self-reported occupational injuries in mothers of a bir...
Amaro, J; Queiroga, AC; Amaro, J; Mehlum, IS; Lucas, RPurpose. This study investigated self-reported occupational injuries among mothers in a large birth cohort study and the relation of their characteristics to different injury outcomes: occurrence, severity, temporal proximity and recurrence. Methods. We asked 4338 women whether they had been in ‘an accident at work, even if it did not require medical treatment’, and the number of accidents throughout their work...
Phase One of a Global Evaluation of Suction-Based Airway Clearance Devices in F...
Dunne, CL; Osman, S; Viguers, K; Queiroga, AC; Szpilman, D; Peden, AEBackground: Choking is a prevalent source of injury and mortality worldwide. Traditional choking interventions, including abdominal thrusts and back blows, have remained the standard of care for decades despite limited published data. Suction-based airway clearance devices (ACDs) are becoming increasingly popular and there is an urgent need to evaluate their role in choking intervention. The aim of this study w...
Drowning risk and climate change: a state-of-the-art review
Sindall, R; Mecrow, T; Queiroga, AC; Boyer, C; Koon, W; Peden, AEDrowning and climate change are both significant global health threats, yet little research links climate change to drowning risk. Research into the epidemiology, risk factors and preventive strategies for unintentional drowning in high-income and in low-income and middle-income countries has expanded understanding, but understanding of disaster and extreme weather-related drowning needs research focus. As nati...