• Postgraduate medicine · Jun 1998

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    Near drowning. Rescuing patients through education as well as treatment.

    • F Thanel.
    • Sioux Falls Family Practice Residency Program, Center for Family Medicine, SD 57105, USA.
    • Postgrad Med. 1998 Jun 1;103(6):141-4, 149-53.

    AbstractOptimal prehospital care of near-drowning victims requires bystanders and emergency-response personnel who are knowledgeable in CPR and proper rescue techniques. Primary care physicians can play an important role when asked to teach CPR, first-responder, or emergency-care classes or to serve as medical director for a local ambulance group. Rapid response and appropriate ventilation and airway protection by prehospitalization providers can improve the condition of near-drowning victims on arrival in the emergency department and their chances for neurologically intact survival. With knowledge of the local risks of drowning, proper emergency treatment, appropriate referral, and conscientious efforts at prevention conducted in the office and the community, primary care physicians can have maximum impact on this summer-time killer.

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