Drowning And Diving Emergencies Flashcards

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What does cold water do to the body?

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  • Slows metabolic rate of victim

- Can be in cold water for an hour or more and survive

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Drowning

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-Hypoxia and acidosis damage the cells, tissues, and organs, and will lead to cardiac arrest

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Diving emergencies

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  • Always assume that there’s spinal injury and manage it with appropriate precautions
  • Always look for associates traumatic injuries
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Dry drowning

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  • Laryngospasm

- Water can’t get in but neither can air

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Mammalian diving reflex

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-It activates after diving into cold water ( less than 70F)
•Larynx spasm
•Breathing is inhibited
•Heart Rate slows
•Blood Vessels constrict
•Blood flow to the brain and heart increase

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Fresh water vs. Salt water

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  • Fresh water- move fluid into circulation—hemodilution

- Salt water- moves water into lungs ——Pulmonary Edema

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Decompression Sickness

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  • The bends

- Rising too fast for time and depth in ocean

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Decompression Sickness S/Sx

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  • Minimal localized joint pain
  • Mottling of the skin
  • Localized Swelling
  • Not progressive
  • Rash
  • Headache
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Arterial Gas Embolism

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  • Blocking of blood vessels by an air bubble or clusters of air bubbles
  • Rapid ascent, air in lungs expands rapidly
  • Ruptures alveoli and damaging adjacent blood vessels
  • Air bubbles enter the bloodstream
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Barotrauma

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-Ascent or descent when air pressure in the body’s air cavities becomes too great

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