Near Drowning : Treatments

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When someone is drowning: Extend a long pole or branch to the person, or use a throw rope attached to a buoyant object, such as a life ring or life jacket. Toss it to the person, then pull him or her to shore; People who have fallen through ice ma...
Source:ADAM
Date:July 17, 2006
Near-drowning is the term for survival after suffocation caused by submersion in water or another fluid. Some experts exclude from this definition cases of temporary survival that end in death within 24 hours, which they prefer to classify as drow...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Detailed information on cpr, including how to become properly trained in cpr
Source:StayWell
Attempting to restart breathing and heartbeat for someone whose breathing and pulse appear to have stopped. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) employs chest compressions in a sequential pattern with artificial respiration to restore or maintain weak breathing and heartbeat.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
CPR is a lifesaving procedure that is performed when someone's breathing or heartbeat has stopped, as in cases of electric shock, drowning, or heart attack. CPR is a combination of: Rescue breathing, which provides oxygen to a person's lungs; Chest compressions, which keep the person's blood circulating. Permanent brain damage or death can occur within minutes if a person's blood flow stops. Therefore, you must continue these procedures until the person's heartbeat and breathing return, or trained medical help arrives.
Source:ADAM
Date:July 31, 2007
First Aid: CPRCardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR)is used when the victim isn’t breathing and has no pulse. CPR alternates rescue breathing with chest compressions to act in place of the lungs and heart.
Source:StayWell
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a procedure to support and maintain breathing and circulation for an infant, child, or adolescent who has stopped breathing (respiratory arrest) and/or whose heart has stopped (cardiac arrest). Purpose CPR is performed to restore and maintain breathing and circulation and to provide oxygen and blood flow to the heart, brain, and other vital organs.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a procedure to support and maintain breathing and circulation for a person who has stopped breathing (respiratory arrest) and/or whose heart has stopped (cardiac arrest). Purpose CPR is performed to restore and maintain breathing and circulation and to provide oxygen and blood flow to the heart, brain, and other vital organs.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a procedure to support and maintain breathing and circulation on a person who has stopped breathing (respiratory arrest) and/or whose heart has stopped (cardiac arrest). Purpose CPR is performed to restore and maintain breathing and circulation and to provide oxygen and blood flow to the heart, brain , and other vital organs.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Under new American Heart Association guidelines, training programs on cardiopulmonary resuscitation, better known as CPR, have become shorter and simpler.
Source:StayWell
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, commonly called CPR, combines rescue breathing (one person breathing into another person) and chest compression in a lifesaving procedure performed when a person has stopped breathing or a person ' s heart has stopped beating. Purpose When performed quickly enough, CPR can save lives in such emergencies as loss of consciousness, heart attacks or heart " arrests, " electric shock, drowning, excessive bleeding, drug overdose, and other conditions in which there is no breathing or no pulse.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
A guide to the American Heart Association's new, simplified CPR recommendations. Includes a clip and save illustrated wallet key.
Source:StayWell
The American Heart Association has issued revised guidelines for administering CPR, intended to simplify the process and help save more lives.
Source:StayWell
Studies suggest CPR may not always be performed correctly???by professionals or laypersons. Exploring how guidelines for CPR might be fine-tuned.
Source:StayWell
Victims of cardiac arrest who received only chest compressions, without interruption for breaths, had a much lower risk of suffering neurological damage as a result of the attack.
Source:StayWell
Discusses the causes of sudden cardiac death and tips for how to prevent it.In most cases, death is the expected conclusion to a difficult illness. Sometimes, though, it comes unpredictably and swiftly. Doctors define sudden death as an abrupt, unexpected natural death that ends life less than an hour after final symptoms first develop in a person who does not have a condition that seems rapidly fatal.
Source:StayWell
The majority of cardiac attacks occur at home, so being prepared could save a life. Options include learning CPR, owning a defibrillator, and having an emergency plan.
Source:StayWell
Oxygen may be classified as an element, a gas, and a drug. Oxygen therapy is the administration of oxygen at concentrations greater than that in room air to treat or prevent hypoxemia (not enough oxygen in the blood).
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
Home oxygen therapy can help improve the length and quality of life for a person with COPD.
Source:StayWell
Oxygen may be classified as an element, a gas, and a drug. Oxygen therapy is the administration of oxygen at concentrations greater than that in room air to treat or prevent hypoxia.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
To reduce the chances of fire and other hazards, you need to follow guidelines when using your oxygen unit.
Source:StayWell
To use oxygen at home safely, you will need to follow certain steps each each time you use your oxygen unit.
Source:StayWell
Oxygen/ozone therapy is a term that describes a number of different practices in which oxygen, ozone, or hydrogen peroxide are administered via gas or water to kill disease microorganisms, improve cellular function, and promote the healing of damaged tissues. The rationale behind bio-oxidative therapies, as they are sometimes known, is the notion that as long as the body ' s needs for antioxidants are met, the use of certain oxidative substances will stimulate the movement of oxygen atoms from the bloodstream to the cells.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Oxygen/ozone therapy is a term that describes a number of different practices in which oxygen, ozone, or hydrogen peroxide are administered via gas or water to kill disease microorganisms, improve cellular function, and promote the healing of damaged tissues. The rationale behind bio-oxidative therapies, as they are sometimes known, is the notion that as long as the body ' s needs for antioxidants are met, the use of certain oxidative substances will stimulate the movement of oxygen atoms from the bloodstream to the cells.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
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