Rural residents often drown

Rural residents often drown.
People in agricultural areas are nearly three times more like as not to drown than those who live in cities, a new Canadian study finds. This may be because Arcadian 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 vigora. Their findings - from an breakdown of drowning incidents in the headache of Ontario between 2004 and 2008 - appeared recently in the International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education.

A aid study by the St Michael's researchers found that most drowning incidents occur in apparent 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 natural medicine. The researchers also found that bystanders function CPR in half of all drowning events, but only for one-third of all other cardiac arrests.