Rural residents often drown

Rural residents often drown.
People in exurban areas are nearly three times more probably to drown than those who live in cities, a new Canadian study finds. This may be because country residents are more likely to be around open water and less likely to have taken swimming lessons, according to the researchers at St Michael's Hospital in Toronto vigrxfor.men. Their findings - from an breakdown of drowning incidents in the also dependancy of Ontario between 2004 and 2008 - appeared recently in the International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education.

A two shakes study by the St Michael's researchers found that most drowning incidents occur in unrestricted places, such as open water, recreation centers or parks. Even so, four out of five drownings happen without a witness, according to the study, which was published recently in the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine implant. The researchers also found that bystanders bring off CPR in half of all drowning events, but only for one-third of all other cardiac arrests.