[torsday]

Some interesting drowning facts:

- Clean and cold water is ideal: pneumonia and metabolism.

- If you revive a drowned person, insist they go to the hospital: CPR can push the fluid in their lungs into their blood, only to return later on, drowning them all the same, "parking lot drowning."

- Quite often, water doesn't enter their lungs as their vocal cords spasm.

~ Paramedic in another life

[kazinator]

You mean clean, cold water is ideal for avoiding the bacterial infection (e.g. streptococcus pneumoniae) that causes pneumonia?

[JshWright]

Clean to avoid pneumonia. Cold to avoid brain death (or to delay it, at least...)

[rev_bird]

I think it's that the same mechanisms that heal pneumonia heal lungs full of clean, cold water.