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The Lifesaving Foundation CLG is registered in Ireland as a Not-for-Profit company and
                                          a Drowning Prevention Charity.

                            It has an international membership and management board.
                                            New members are welcome.
                             The Management Board consists of the following persons;

             Mr. Brendan Donohoe               Ireland                                        (Chairperson)
             Mr. John Connolly                 Ireland                        (Company & Charity Secretary)
             Mr. John Long                     United Kingdom                                     (Director)
             Mrs. Andrea Andrews               United Kingdom                                     (Director)
             Dr. Ana Catarina Queiroga         Portugal                                           (Director)
             Dr. Shayne Baker                  Australia                                          (Director)
             M/s Maria Bolger                  Ireland                  (Financial Administrator) non-director


                               HOW WILL THE DROWNING RESEARCH GATHERING WORK?
      Those present undertaking drowning related research will present (in turn) a brief outline of their research to the group and
      answer questions. This will be followed by discussion. The aim is to get an overview of what is currently being researched
      and to share sources and resources if possible. We are sure that the discussion will continue afterwards because this is what
      happened previously. We will not accept participation on-line.
                                                 DROWNING RESEARCH


      John Connolly, The Lifesaving Foundation, Ireland       location, time etc of the cardiac arrest  PAD above used such
      l  Why swimmers die by drowning.                        data. In all the above I fill the role of Patient/Public Involvement
      l  Suicide by drowning - Prevention and Rescue.         participant
      Andrea  Andrews,  Independent  Researcher,  UK and  The   William Koon, University of New South Wales - Sydney,
      Lifesaving Foundation.                                  Australia & USA
      l  The Scientific and Philosophical foundation of aquatic resilience.  l  Coastal drowning epidemiology and prevention
      l  How  to  improve  the  flow  of  effective  insights  from  deep  water
      engagement throughout applied aquatics.                 Professor Linda Quan MD, Seattle Children’s Hospital,
                                                              American Red Cross, USA
      Melon Dash, Miracle Swimming School for Adults, USA.    l  Development of the U.S. Water Safety National Action Plan
      l  Most adult drowning caused by panic.                 l  Develop and then trial an intake data collection form for
      l  What is the cause of panic in adult drownees?        parents whose children are taking swimming lessons to include
                                                              demographics, and water competencies. Goal: a standardized data
      Connie Harvey, American Red Cross, USA.                 collection tool with validated questions
      l  Barriers to participation in swim lessons for those at the highest   l  Evaluate a large database of children in swim lessons across
      risk of drowning in the US.                             the country. Goal:  describe US swim programs by region,
      l  Water competency skill attainment for young children.  demographics, etc.
                                                              l  Conduct follow up (drowning deaths and hospitalizations) of
      Professor Richard Franklin, James Cook University, Australia.  high risk children who have taken swim lessons compared to same
      l  Epidemiology, gender, rescues, rivers, treatment, migrants,   age general population. Goal: determine if swim lessons decrease
      tourists,  rural, dams,  children, alcohol, medical conditions, learn   drowning risk.
      to  swim,  strategy,  flooding,  heat  waves,  risk  factors,  prevention   l  Survey U.S. swim schools to identify their students’
      strategies,  older  people,  boating,  suicide,  rock  fishing,  legislation,   demographics, what and how they teach, criteria for progression,
      swimming pools and social impact.                       and how they communicate to parents. Goal: to describe and then
                                                              standardize swim school progression.
      Associate Professor Ogilvie Thom, MD., James Cook University   l  Evaluate California’s state drowning data. Study, led by W.
      and Surf Life Saving Queensland, Australia.             Koon, identified the need for regional focus and remarkable
      l  Medical management of drowning patients.             temporal changes in at risk age and racial groups.
      l  Surf rescue.                                         l  Develop a template for an annual state drowning prevention
                                                              report, Goal: Meet WHO requests for national data.
      John Long, University of Warwick Medical School,        l  Improve a national drowning data collection form used by the
      l  Optimisation of the Deployment of Automatic External   National Fatality Violence Reporting System.
      Defibrillators in Public Places in England ( PAD Project) - Research   l  Develop Haddon matrix for drowning prevention in 1)
      complete and draft report out for peer comment  The report   adolescents and 2) adults (50 year old males)
      analysed location of Cardiac Arrests in relation to current locations
      of AEDs  It will be used to assist future sites of such machines.  Amy Peden, University of New South Wales, Australia
      l  PARAMEDIC3 Trial - Looking at the most effective way to treat   l  River drowning and inland water safety
      someone who has a Cardiac Arrest outside hospital by giving drugs   l  The epidemiology of drowning and improving global estimates of
      through the vein or directly into the bone              fatal and non-fatal drowning burden
      l  OHCAO - Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes - this is   l  Evaluation of drowning prevention interventions
      a prospective study of all out of hospital cardiac  arrests in the   l  Drowning prevention across the life course, in particular older
      UK    The data collected is made available for research into cause,   adults and adolescents
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