A study among the population of Sevilla of death due to submersion.

Death due to submersion is of great interest from the medical-legal point of view, given the increase in nautical activity among children and adults alike over the past number of years. However, the lack of reliable statistical data concerning the impact of this specific form of death in our country must be emphasized. These are the circumstances that have led us to study the incidence of this form of death in a specific area. The population analyzed lived in the city of Sevilla during the period 1967-1993.

[1]  E. van der Velde,et al.  Submersion cases in The Netherlands. , 1989, Annals of emergency medicine.

[2]  P. O'Carroll,et al.  Drowning mortality in Los Angeles County, 1976 to 1984. , 1988, JAMA.

[3]  J. Ledman,et al.  Drownings of children and youth in a desert state. , 1985, The Western journal of medicine.

[4]  M. Osterholm,et al.  Drownings in Minnesota, 1980-85: a population-based study. , 1990, American journal of public health.

[5]  K. Kock,et al.  Autopsied cases of drowning in Denmark 1987-1989. , 1991, Forensic science international.

[6]  A. Auer.  Suicide by Drowning in Uusimaa Province in Southern Finland , 1990, Medicine, science, and the law.

[7]  S. M. Shepherd.  Immersion injury. Drowning and near drowning. , 1989, Postgraduate medicine.

[8]  J. Pearn.  Pathophysiology of drowning * , 1985, The Medical journal of Australia.

[9]  A. Copeland.  Suicide by Drowning , 1987, The American journal of forensic medicine and pathology.