https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2011.227

Sea drowning: a case report and review of the literature

Vol. 75 No. 2 (2011): Pulmonary series
Submitted: December 10, 2015
Accepted: December 10, 2015
Published: December 10, 2015
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A. Estella
litoestella@hotmail.com
Intensive Care Unit, Hospital of Jerez, Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), Spain.
L. Pérez Bello Fontaiña
Intensive Care Unit, Hospital of Jerez, Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), Spain.
400,000 incidents of sea drowning take place every year. We report the case of a woman, 34 years old, attended on the beach by external hospital emergency services after suffering immersion in seawater resulting in drowning due to acute respiratory failure. She was admitted to the critical care unit and an emergency fiberoptic bronchoscopy was performed, extracting a large quantity of sand and algae. The respiratory function improved and FiO2 requirements were gradually reduced following the procedure. After 8 days of mechanical ventilation the patient was extubated, with good clinical tolerance and was transferred to a ward.

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Estella, A., and L. Pérez Bello Fontaiña. 2015. “Sea Drowning: A Case Report and Review of the Literature”. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 75 (2). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2011.227.

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