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2024 Focused update on special circumstances: resuscitation following drowning: an update to the American Heart Association guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care​​[48]

Published by:American Heart Association and American Academy of Pediatrics

Last published:2024

Practice guidelines for the prevention and treatment of drowning​​​[41]

Published by:The Wilderness Medical Society

Last published:2024

2024 American Heart Association and American Red Cross guidelines for first aid[65]

Published by:American Heart Association and American Red Cross

Last published:2024

European Resuscitation Council Guidelines European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Cardiac arrest in special circumstances[36]

Published by:European Resuscitation Council

Last published:2021

Resuscitation guidelines[38]

Published by:The Resuscitation Council (UK)

Last published:2021

Position statements: definition of drowning[66]

Published by:The International Life Saving Federation

Last published:2016

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