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Cogitation on Routine Drowned Cases in Mazandaran Province: a Case Study in between the Year 2008 to 2013



Farzad Bozorgi, Hojjat Derakhshanfar, Seyed Mohammad Hoseininejad, Ali Abbasi, AbolghasemLali, Mehrnoush Tavakoli

Abstract

Since last few decades drowned cases are increasing in Mazandaran Province which could be directly estimated while going through the data available at the pre-hospital emergency department of the aforesaid Province and legal medicine organization. Mazandaran Province receives a great number of tourists every year, especially in summer and for them swimming in the Caspian Sea is the major motive of attraction. Our study was conducted on the descriptive-periodical basis in Mazandaran Province from June to September within 2008- 2013 by using the available resources at above mentioned units of the Mazandaran Province.With reference to the place of the drowning,death causes for most of the individuals indicate poor quality or ineff iciency of rescue systems. Possible suggestions have been given to overcome such accidents..


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    • DOI:10.21276/ambi.2016.03.2.ra02

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