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Why You Must Never Rush A Drowning Victim To The Hospital by dyera(m): 3:40pm On Nov 02, 2022 |
Over the years I've noticed a common practice among Nigerians, which is whenever they rescue a drowning person from the water they would immediately rush the person to the nearby hospital. Here's an excerpt from a research article on the best way to rescue a drowning person: Prehospital Management https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3677166/ Meaning, after you rescue a drowning person, you perform CPR while you called for an ambulance or a doctor. Leaving them for several minutes without CPR while you rush them to a hospital, you are leaving them to die. You are to perform CPR on the drowning person until the water within them is expelled (until they cough out the water). If they don't cough out the water within them after you perform CPR for 30 mins to 1 hour, a doctor can confirm them dead. Please note, there's a difference between a drowning person and a drowned person. A drowned person is someone that died from water suffocation. A drowning person is someone that is about to die from water suffocation. The water will have filled their lungs and stopped the breathing of a drowning person, their heart may have also stopped beating (Cardiac arrest), but they are still not dead. With proper CPR for artificial respiration that includes pressing of chest to restore the heart beat, a drowning person can be saved. The action of rushing a drowning person to a hospital can never be more wrong because the first thing that should be done after rescuing a drowning victim is to perform CPR on the person. Unfortunately according to the narration of the people in the house, Davido's son was treated like this eliminating the little boy chance of survival. “The boy left the house, walked to the back where the swimming pool is situated and fell into the swimming pool. Nobody noticed until much later. At that point in time, he had drowned and was at the bottom of the swimming pool. https://leadership.ng/ifeanyi-autopsy-likely-as-police-free-six-davidos-domestic-staff-detain-two/ 1 Like
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