EM Cases · Drowning
Drowning — paediatric submersion resus station
ACEM Fellowship OSCE resus station testing ventilation-first drowning ALS, selective C-spine, no prophylactic antibiotics, and cold/prolonged resus principles.
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Target exams
ACEMFRCEMABEMFRCPCCCFPEMEBEEM
Prompt
A toddler pulled from a pool arrives in hypoxic bradycardic arrest; the team debates C-spine, antibiotics and when to stop.
Station brief
Format. Clinical-management (resus) station, 11 minutes. You are the EM consultant.
References2ShowHide
- [1]Szpilman D, Bierens JJLM, Handley AJ, Orlowski JP. Drowning. N Engl J Med, 2012.PMID 22646632
- [2]Szpilman D, Webber J, Quan L, et al. Creating a drowning chain of survival. Resuscitation, 2014.PMID 24911403