A one-year-old infant was found after he lost consciousness in a bathtub in his home in Ramle on Monday afternoon.
United Hatzalah dispatch and command center received an emergency call regarding the infant who, according to the report from the anxious caregiver, had lost consciousness for a few minutes after having drowned in a bathtub in the infant’s home.
United Hatzalah volunteer EMT and ambucycle driver Amir Bokobza works near where the incident occurred. After receiving the emergency alert from the dispatch center, Bokobza dropped what he was doing at work and raced over to the address. He arrived in less than 90 seconds from receiving the alert. Bokobza succeeded at resuscitating the child. He performed CPR and provided high-flow oxygen to the infant until the ambulance was able to arrive and join the efforts.
Once revived, the baby was transported to the hospital by Magen David Adom for further care and observation.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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The definition of drowning is that the person died. If the child was resuscitated, he didn’t drown.
drown
droun/
verb
verb: drown; 3rd person present: drowns; past tense: drowned; past participle: drowned; gerund or present participle: drowning
die through submersion in and inhalation of water.
A new definition of drowning: towards documentation and prevention of a global public health problem
E.F. van Beeck, C.M. Branche, D. Szpilman, J.H. Modell, & J.J.L.M. Bierens
ABSTRACT
Drowning is a major global public health problem. Effective prevention of drowning requires programmes and policies that address known risk factors throughout the world. Surveillance, however, has been hampered by the lack of a uniform and internationally accepted definition that permits all relevant cases to be counted. To develop a new definition, an international consensus procedure was conducted. Experts in clinical medicine, injury epidemiology, prevention and rescue from all over the world participated in a series of “electronic” discussions and face-to-face workshops. The suitability of previous definitions and the major requirements of a new definition were intensely debated. The consensus was that the new definition should include both cases of fatal and nonfatal drowning. After considerable dialogue and debate, the following definition was adopted: “Drowning is the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion/immersion in liquid.” Drowning outcomes should be classified as: death, morbidity, and no morbidity. There was also consensus that the terms wet, dry, active, passive, silent, and secondary drowning should no longer be used. Thus a simple, comprehensive, and internationally accepted definition of drowning has been developed. Its use should support future activities in drowning surveillance worldwide, and lead to more reliable and comprehensive epidemiological information on this global, and frequently preventable, public health problem.