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If there is no shepherd’s crook, you might use other reaching equipment, such as poles, oars, paddles, tree branches, shirts, belts or towels.

A rescue tube is made up of high-density foam and used in multiple ways to protect the victim from drowning. The lifeguard swims out with the rescue tube dragging behind him/her till he reaches the person in distress.

1. Get Help. Notify a lifeguard, if one is close.
2. Move the Person. Take the person out of the water.
3. Check for Breathing. Place your ear next to the person’s mouth and nose.
4. If the Person is Not Breathing, Check Pulse.
5. If There is No Pulse, Start CPR.
6. Repeat if Person Is Still Not Breathing.

Awareness, Assessment, Action and Aftercare

If you suspect someone is drowning, follow these USSSA guidelines:

• “Throw, Don’t Go”— Never just jump in because a drowning person can accidentally pull their rescuers under with them.
• Get backup — Call 911 or inform others that someone is drowning, so they can call 911, and let them know you’re helping.

If an object has a greater density than water, it sinks. If it is less dense than water, it floats. Salt dissolved in the water makes it more dense. So even if you haven’t changed your body composition, you are less dense relative to the salty water, which helps you float on the surface.

The 5 Most Common Causes of Drowning

• Lack of swimming ability. The most common cause of drowning is not knowing how to swim.
• No barriers around the pool.
• Lack of supervision.
• Failure to wear life jackets.
• Alcohol use.

Watch for these signs of drowning:

• Head low in the water with mouth at water level.
• Head tilted back with mouth open.
• Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus.
• Eyes closed.
• Hair over forehead or eyes.
• Not using legs and vertical in the water.
• Hyperventilating or gasping.

The head will be tilted back and the mouth will be open as the victim attempts to breathe. They push down on the water’s surface with their arms in an attempt to keep themselves above the surface to breathe. They will vertically bob in one location and not move in any direction.

Drowning can be categorised into five different types: near drowning, dry drowning, freshwater drowning, salt water drowning and secondary drowning.

• Near drowning.
• Dry drowning.
• Freshwater drowning.
• Salt water drowning.
• Secondary drowning.

When someone is drowning, they can’t shout out for help: their body automatically prioritizes breathing over anything else, making it impossible for them to scream. When a person is in the advanced stages of drowning, they are virtually silent and making very few movements.

Active drowning victims HAVE NO BREATH CONTROL, they are 100% focused on NOT DIEING. They are in what is called The INSTINCTIVE DROWNING RESPONSE. Meaning You float, they don’t they will lunge, grab, and otherwise crawl on you to get out of the water.

But the health event we know as drowning only takes a couple of seconds to occur. If a person is submerged after breathing in water for 4 to 6 minutes without resuscitation, it will result in brain damage and eventually death by drowning. This article will discuss safety strategies to prevent drowning.

What is it like to feel like you’re drowning? It is slow and fast at the same time. It is surreal, almost like you can see outside yourself and know what is happening to you, yet you have little control over it.

Asphyxia by Drowning Induces Massive Bleeding Due To Hyperfibrinolytic Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation.

Most people survive near-drowning after 24 hours of the initial incident. Even if a person has been under water for a long time, it may still be possible to resuscitate them. Do not make a judgment call based on time. Call 911 and perform CPR.

Physicians believe that brain damage begins to occur after about five minutes of oxygen deprivation. “If you can rescue a child before that and restore their breathing with CPR, and get their breathing back, usually the children will recover,” Dr. Goodman says. “After five minutes, there will be brain damage.

Emergency advice Call 999. Perform chest compressions to the time of “Staying Alive”. Do not give rescue breaths. Continue compressions until help arrives.

People can recover brain function after near drowning, he said, and “it has nothing to do with hyperbaric oxygen.” Recovery can happen because of the brain’s plasticity, or flexibility, meaning that different brain areas can take over for those that have been damaged, Cifu said.

A full recovery from severe anoxic or hypoxic brain injury is rare, but many patients with mild anoxic or hypoxic brain injuries are capable of making a full or partial recovery. Furthermore, symptoms and effects of the injury are dependent on the area(s) of the brain that was affected by the lack of oxygen.

Recovery: ‘It’s a process’ Between 5 and 20 percent of drowning survivors will likely suffer lifelong disabilities, according to research by Phoenix Children’s Hospital. Recovery can be unpredictable, Wilner said. Some may regain most, if not all, abilities. Others may never get back what was lost.

Comparison with other studies. In children with cardiac arrest after drowning, neurologically intact survival varies from 0% to 40%.

The bodies of the drowned sometimes surface on their own, but this depends on the qualities of the water. The putrefaction of flesh produces gases, primarily in the chest and gut, that inflate a corpse like a balloon. In warm, shallow water, decomposition works quickly, surfacing a corpse within two or three days.

Like Jewel, people who survive drowning may experience brain or organ damage ranging from mild to severe. This is also known as hypoxic brain injury (brain damage due to lack of oxygen). The symptoms of hypoxic brain injuries include inattentiveness, poor judgment, memory loss, and a decrease in motor coordination .

After a near-drowning incident, a patient is at risk for complications such as hypoxic or ischemic cerebral injury, acute respiratory distress syndrome, pulmonary damage secondary to aspiration, and life-threatening cardiac arrest.

Without Oxygen, the victim will lose consciousness. Because the victim has been without oxygen, the body shuts itself down as unconsciousness results. In this stage the victim will be motionless. Because breathing has stopped, he/she is in respiratory arrest.

Key facts. Drowning is the 3rd leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide, accounting for 7% of all injury-related deaths. There are an estimated 236 000 annual drowning deaths worldwide.

Who is most at risk in the United States? Males: Nearly 80 percent of people who die from drowning in the United States are male. Children: Children ages 1-4 have the highest drowning rates. In 2014, among children 1-4 years old who died from an unintentional injury, one third died from drowning.

Occasionally, victims may not begin experiencing these symptoms for several hours after they are rescued. An incident of drowning can also cause further complications for victims due to low body temperature, aspiration of vomit, or acute respiratory distress syndrome (respiratory failure from lung inflammation).