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The experience of drowning

Author(s) -

Mike Tipton,

Hugh Montgomery

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

medico-legal journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2042-1834

pISSN - 0025-8172

DOI - 10.1177/00258172211053127

Subject(s) - accidental , duration (music) , compensation (psychology) , psychology , forensic engineering , medical emergency , medicine , engineering , social psychology , art , physics , literature , acoustics

Internationally, drowning is a leading cause of accidental death that features in many legal cases. In these cases, possible mitigations and the ‘pain and suffering’ in terms of the duration and subjective experience of drowning are often pivotal in determining levels of compensation and outcome. As a result, there is a requirement to understand the stages of the drowning process, and the duration and physiological and subjective responses associated with each stage. In this short review we focus on these issues.

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