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Although fatal drowning rarely occurs in swimming pools, this event has a very grave impact on the swimming pool employees, notably when they have been directly involved in the rescue and resuscitation. At the same time, very little data is available on the incidence, causes and outcome of pool drowning. It is important that pool lifeguards understand that a cardiac arrest after drowning is different...
Drowning is the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion/immersion in liquid; outcomes are classified as death, morbidity and no morbidity. In most of the developed countries, drowning is the second or third cause of accidental death for children aged <15 after road accident and fires and, according to the World Health Organization, the third leading cause of death in children...
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