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Essentials 1 The incidence of non-fatal drownings requiring medical assessment to fatal drownings is around 2 to 20 times greater than fatal drowning. 2 The highest rates of drowning occur in children from 1 to 4 years of age and…

Essentials 1 Venous thromboembolism (VTE) has protean clinical manifestations and is a continuum from deep venous thrombosis (DVT) to the main life-threatening complication of pulmonary embolism (PE). 2 Left untreated, patients with a diagnosis of PE have a significant recurrence…