Child drowning

Drowning refers to the flooding of the face and upper respiratory tract with various liquids, including water, leading to a life-threatening state or death caused by suffocation due to loss of respiratory function. The serious consequence of drowning is that even if life recovers, the neurological damage caused by drowning is often enough to make the child unable to live normally. Foreign data show that 60% to 100% of drowning children who receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation and survive in the emergency room have severe brain damage. The classification of drowning is mostly divided according to the time of drowning and the degree of hypoxia, the nature of the drowning liquid (freshwater, seawater, sewage, etc.), and the occurrence of complications. Drowning generally refers to surviving for more than 24 hours after drowning; drowning refers to death within 24 hours due to drowning; secondary drowning refers to death from complications in the short term after drowning Patients, the initial condition after drowning is not serious, but later the condition worsens and eventually leads to death; immersion syndrome refers to the sudden death when falling into ice water. It is currently believed that its occurrence and excessive excitement of the vagus nerve cause heartbeat to stop or ventricle Flutter related. Drowning can also be divided into pale and purplish type. The former is drowning due to heartbeat, respiratory reflex stop, rapid loss of consciousness, or convulsions, craniocerebral trauma, intracranial hemorrhage, etc .; the latter is more common for children Water strokes and struggling movements occur during drowning, causing a large release of catecholamines in the body.

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