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Drowning causes about 140000 deaths a year in the world [1], of which 9000 occur in the USA [2] and about 100 in Switzerland. One may assume that the number of near-drownings is about nine times the number of actual deaths through drowning [2].
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Unger, PF. (1989). Near-drowning. In: Vincent, J.L. (eds) Update 1989. Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83737-1_54
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