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Presence of alcohol ‘significantly reduces’ rescue chances in youth drownings: study
Researchers found alcohol quadrupled the risk of a youth drowning victim not being rescued in 638 Canadian cases.
- A new Simon Fraser University study analyzing 11 years of forensic data found that alcohol presence quadruples the risk of a youth drowning victim not being rescued.
- Teenagers between ages 15 and 19 accounted for 33.5 per cent of pediatric drowning deaths, while infants were nearly 96 per cent more likely to receive rescue attempts than older youth.
- Lead researcher Vienna Lam stated that preteens make poor guardians, noting a "really big difference between being a bystander and a capable guardian" because youth lack adult decision-making capacity.
- Lam hailed the Vancouver Park Board's recent decision to restore lifeguards at nine outdoor beaches, welcoming the move amid the city's influx of visitors for the World Cup.
- Nearly half of preteens who died were in the company of other minors without adults, reinforcing Lam's emphasis on the vital importance of trained lifeguards in busy stretches of water.
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Presence of alcohol ‘significantly reduces’ rescue chances in youth drownings: study
VANCOUVER - A new study by researchers at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver has found that alcohol "significantly reduces" the chance of rescue in a youth drowning accident.
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As families get ready for outdoor summer adventures, an SFU study has found that alcohol significantly reduces the chance of youths being rescued from drowning.The findings indicate that teenagers. . .
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