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Posts tagged Drowning

No Other Options (a true story)

Aug 31, 2018 ~ Written by Robert Lawson, MD

It was the summer of 1970 and I had just graduated from Glendale High School in California. I had been working at the Glendale YMCA as a lifeguard and a swimming instructor for two years, and just finished teaching a Water Safety Instructors class. My younger brother Jim was one of my students. I talked […]

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Posted in Assorted Flotsam and Jetsam - Tagged Evacuation, Surfing Injury

Case Report: 63 y.o. male surfer “found down”

Aug 31, 2018 ~ Written by Surfing Medicine Staff
Post-intubation CXR

HPI 63-year-old male surfer in Northern California was found floating in shore break by fellow surfers. He was wearing a full wetsuit and last seen riding a 5-foot wave, perhaps 5 minutes before the incident. When other surfers arrived to assist, the victim was not breathing spontaneously, had limp muscle tone and was blue. He […]

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Posted in Acute Surfing Injury, Case Report - Tagged Surfing Death, Surfing Injury

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