The remaining 4 children were not given immediate ventilation and chest compressions but were carried downhill and were still in critical condition.
A 3-year-old boy in Thai Nguyen drowned in a swimming pool on August 10 while swimming with his brother (14 years old). Later, the child was discovered submerged in an adult swimming pool with purple lips, pale skin, and not moving. The child was given chest compressions and breathing breaths by staff at the swimming pool for about 2 minutes, and his skin color returned to pink. However, the child was carried and ran for 5 minutes. After realizing that the child's condition did not improve, he was transferred to the nearest medical station and district hospital. Here, the child was given oxygen, had a heartbeat again, but had incontinence in urination and had spasticity, so he was transferred to a provincial hospital. The child continued to be intubated by doctors and transferred to the National Children's Hospital.
At the time of admission, the patient was in a coma, had respiratory failure, circulatory failure, and multi-organ failure. He was treated with mechanical ventilation, hemodynamic stabilization, dialysis, antibiotics, and active hypothermia to protect him. protect the brain. However, after 3 days, the child's condition was still serious, with a high risk of death due to multi-organ failure and prolonged brain hypoxia due to lack of proper first aid.
A 4-year-old girl in Hanoi who drowned while practicing swimming fortunately recovered well due to proper first aid. The girl's mother said that before going to the hospital, the child's parents let her learn to swim at a swimming pool near her house. During the swimming process, the child almost learned how to swim and was allowed to go to an adult's swimming pool to practice swimming under the supervision of the girl. Dad and swimming teacher.
However, when entering the pool, the adult child did not like to swim and did not cooperate, so after about 5 minutes there were signs of drowning. When they discovered that the child was turning blue, the teacher and father picked the child up and performed first aid, chest compressions, and continuous rescue breathing. Not following the first aid method for drowning, the common mistake was to turn around and run, wasting valuable time. to save children's lives.
After about 1 minute of emergency treatment, the child regained breathing and was transferred to a medical facility. Although the child was in serious condition when he entered the National Children's Hospital, after only 3 days, he was weaned off the ventilator. Currently, the child is completely awake and ready to be discharged from the hospital.
MSc. Hoang Ngoc Canh, Internal Medicine Intensive Treatment Department, National Children's Hospital said: Initial first aid for drowning children is very important because the main cause of death in drowning children is injury. brain due to lack of oxygen. The brain's maximum tolerance time for lack of oxygen is only about 4-5 minutes. If this time is exceeded, it will lead to irreversible brain damage, death or neurological sequelae. Therefore, when you see a drowning child who is not conscious, not breathing, or in cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (breathing, chest compression) is needed immediately...
Many people have the habit of lifting children upside down on their shoulders and running, which will cause stomach fluids to reflux and be inhaled into the airways, delaying cardiopulmonary resuscitation (chest compression/breathing), wasting the golden time for emergency treatment. save the child, or even cause further harm to the child.
