Near-drowning: clinical course of lung injury in adults.

Lung
Leonidas GregorakosPavlos Myrianthefs

Abstract

Although anoxic encephalopathy is the most dreaded consequence of submersion accidents, respiratory involvement is also very common in these patients. Nevertheless, few data are available about the clinical course and resolution of lung injury in adult victims of near-drowning. Our goal was to study the clinical manifestations of near-drowning and the course of respiratory involvement in a retrospective cohort of adult, mostly elderly patients. Our study included adult patients who were hospitalized after near-drowning in seawater over an 8-year period. Forty-three patients (26 female, 17 male), with an age range of 18-88 years old, were studied. Most (79%) of the patients were elderly (>60 years). In the Emergency Department two patients were comatose and required intubation. Another patient was intubated within the first 24 h because of ARDS. At presentation, all patients but two had a PaO(2)/FiO(2) < 300, while ARDS was present in 17 and acute lung injury in 15 cases. The nine remaining hypoxemic patients had either focal infiltrates or a negative chest X-ray. Superimposed pneumonia was observed in four patients and resulted in a protracted hospital stay. Improvement of lung injury was rapid in most cases: by day 4 resolutio...Continue Reading

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