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A case of drowning
Author(s) -
BARR A. MARSHALL,
TAYLOR MARY
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1976.tb11846.x
Subject(s) - medicine , reading (process) , library science , law , computer science , political science
A case of near drowning is described. Despite full consciousness on early admission, and apparently good immediate recovery following intensive therapy for delayed pulmonary effects, the patient died of overwhelming necrotising pneumonia on the tenth day after the accident.