When is the best rescue time after drowning?

4-6 minutes golden rescue time after drowning

When someone drowns.

Grasp the gold rescue time of 4 to 6 minutes.

"When someone is drowning, the most important thing is to grasp the treatment time. Generally, after drowning stops breathing for 4-6 minutes, brain death will occur. " Gao Feng said that from the clinical experience, if drowning patients get timely and effective treatment within 5 minutes, the proportion of drowning survivors can be as high as more than 50%; After 6 minutes, the mortality rate rose linearly; If it exceeds 10 minute, the probability of brain death will reach 100%. Even if he is rescued, he is still in a vegetative state.

Extended data

Principles of treatment

1. Quickly remove dirt from the mouth and nose and keep the respiratory tract unobstructed. Drowning is asphyxiated and hypoxic cardiac arrest, and oxygen supply is the primary goal, so A-B-C sequence is used for first aid. First, give 5 artificial breaths, then 30 chest compressions, then 2 artificial breaths, then 30 chest compressions, and then repeat the 2:30 cycle.

2. Freshwater drowning can use 3% hypertonic saline, and seawater drowning can use 5% glucose or low molecular dextran.

3. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

4. Prevention and treatment of complications.

Medication principle

1. 3% hypertonic saline can be used for freshwater drowning and 5% glucose or low molecular dextran can be used for seawater drowning.

2. Patients with heart failure can use cedilanid and furosemide.

3. Patients with pulmonary infection should choose powerful antibiotics.

4. Patients with cerebral edema, pulmonary edema and hemolysis should be treated with glucocorticoid.

5. Patients with acute renal failure can use 20% mannitol and furosemide.

6. Breathing stimulants can be used as appropriate. ?

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