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Near-Drowning: Correlation of Level of Consciousness and Survival NEAR-DROWNING: CORRELATION OF LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND SURVIVAL J.H. MOOELL, S.A. GRAVES AND E.J. KUCK ABSrRAC'~ This paper reports a retrospective review of 121 cases of near-drowning treated at university hospitals in Miami and Gainesville. The series included 57 adults and 64 children who were classified into three categories, Category A (Awake), Category B (Blunted) and Category C (Comatose), based on their level of consciousness on arrival at the primary hospital. Results based on the total 121 patients showed 87 per cent survived with apparently normal brain function, two per cent survived with impaired brain function and I I per cent died. The survival rate of all patients who were awake when they entered the hospital was significantly greater than that of both those who were admitted with blunted consciousness (p = 0.05) and those who were comatose when admitted (p < 0.0001). Further, the group whose members had blunted consciousness had a significanlly greater number of normal survivors than the group whose members were comatose on admission (p < 0.002). All treated adults survived without permanent neurological damage and only three surviv- ing children in the series suffered residual brain damage. Whether the course of the seven patients, three adults and four children, who died without return of brain function, would have been altered by deliberate attempts to preserve the brain is a matter of speculation. DURING l-HE PAST FEW YEARS, some reports have accident was notoriously unreliable in regard to emphasized the incidence of severe neurological duration of submersion and exact details of re- sequelae after near-drowning."z The reported in- suscitation, we elected to categorize our patients cidence of persons who survive a near-drowning according to their levels of consciousness, re- episode but suffer incapacitating brain damage corded when they reached the emergency room varies from 0 to 21 per cent. ~-s At least one au- of the first hospital to receive them. The thor' reporting a high incidence of brain damage categories follow: questions whether all near-drowning victims Group A (awake). These patients were de- should be resuscitated; others have introduced scribed as awake and oriented when they reached intensive therapy aimed primarily at brain pre- the emergency room. Many of these patients had servation. 2 received cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the To identify which patients are most susceptible scene of the accident because ofapnoea and sus- to residual brain damage or death after near- pected cardiac arrest. drowning and therefore, perhaps, to give guid- Group B (blunted). These patients suffered ance to the clinician, we developed, in conjunc- from what we have termed a blunted conscious- tion with Dr. Alan Conn of Toronto, a method of ness, indentified by such descriptions as lethar- categorizing near-drowning victims. gic, semi-comatose, combative, agitated, dis- oriented, and confused. METHODS Group C (comatose). These patients were de- The charts of 121 patients treated for near- scribed as comatose at the time they arrived at the drowning between 1963 and 1979 at the Univer- hospital. sity of Miami School of Medicine and the Univer- In no case were attempts made to treat any sity of Florida College of Medicine were re- patient pharmacologically for brain insult. In viewed retrospectively.* Since information ob- general, therapy centered around intensive pul- tained from persons who were at the scene of the monary care, cardiovascular support, and fluid replacement as required. 4'6'7 J.H. Modell, M.D., S.A. Graves, M.D., and Groups A, B and C were compared with each E.J. Kuck, Departments of Anesthesiology and other, as were the adults and children in each Pediatrics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Box .I-254, J. Hillis Miller Health Center, Gainesville, group, by the Fisher exact test. Florida 32610, U.S.A. Reprint requests to J.H. Modell, M.D. RESULTS * University of Miami, July 1963-July 1973; Univer- sity of Florida, July 1969-October 1979. Ninety-one of Group A. Sixty-one patients, 27 adults (age these patients have been reported previously. 4 34.7 _+ 2.9 years) and 34 children (age 6.5 -I- 0.8 211 Canad. Anaesth. Soc. J., vol. 27, no. 3, May 1980 212 CANADIAN ANAESTHETISTS" SOCIETY JOURNAL TABLE I OUTCOME OF NEAR-DROWNED ADULTS AND CHILDREN ACCORDING TO THEIR LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS WHEN ADMITTED TO THE EMERGENCYROOM Adults Children Total Severe Severe Severe Normal Brain Normal Brain Normal Brain Level of Survival Deficit Death Survival Deficit Death Survival Deficit Death consciousness on admission n % n 70 n % n % n % n % n 7, n ~ n % Awake 27 100 0 0 0 0 34 100 0 0 0 0 61 100 0 0 O 0 Blunted 17 89 0 0 2 I 1 11 92 0 0 I 8 28 90 0 0 3 10 Comatose 8 73 0 0 3 27 8 44 3 17 7 39 16 55 3 10 I0 34 Total 52 91 0 0 5 9 53 83 3 5 8 13 105 87 3 2 13 11 years, mean _ SEM), were awake and oriented child died. The arterial oxygen tension was found when admitted to the emergency room. All of to be 2.66 kPa (20 torr) and the child died while these patients survived with normal brain func- the sample was being analyzed. tion, as assessed by clinical examination and Group C. Twenty-nine patients were comatose comparison of the level of the individual's activ- on arrival at the hospital. Of the 11 adults (age ity before and after the accident (Table I). 37.9 + 4.6 years), eight (73 per cent) survived Group B. Nineteen adults (age 31.5 _ 3.9 with apparently normal brain function and three years) and 12 children (age 5.6 + 1.2 years) were patients died. The 18 children (age 6.6 + 1.2 described as having a blunted consciousness years) were not as fortunate; only eight (44 pet" when admitted to the emergency room. Seven- cent) survived with apparently normal brain teen of the adults (89 per cent) and 11 of the function, seven (39 per cent) died and three (17 children (92 per cent) made completely unevent- per cent) lived with incapacitating brain damage ful recoveries without residual neurological (Table I). While these figures suggest that the deficit (Table I). Two adults and one child died; normal survival rate may be lower for children these three patients deserve special mention. than for adults, the difference between them is Both adults were scuba diving when their acci- not statistically significant (p -- 0.1). Of the ten dents occurred - one at 70 feet below the surface, patients who died, seven (three adults and four the other at 60 feet. Both patients required car- children) never regained consciousness; the re- diopulmonary resuscitation at the scene of the maining three died of severe pulmonary insuffi- accident and on admission to the hospital were ciency. thought to have suffered hyperbarism as well as severe pulmonary aspiration. The lack of a Statistical Comparison of The Groups hyperbaric chamber of sufficient size and sophis- When the adults were analyzed separately, the tication to permit intensive care precluded re- percentages of survivors with normal brain func- compression of the two divers. Each had exten- tion in Group A and in Group B did not differ sive subcutaneous emphysema and bilateral statistically (p > 0.15). Likewise, the percentages pneumothoraces, which prevented effective ap- of survivors in Group B and'in Group C did not plication of high levels of positive end-expiratory differ (p -- 0.2). However, when the percentage of pressure. Both divers subsequently died of se- adult survivors who were awake when admitted vere pulmonary insufficiency. The mental status to the hospital was compared to the percentage of these patients appeared appropriate before of normal survivors who were comatose when they died. The death of the child occurred very they entered the hospital, the survival rate of early in the study, when the importance of inten- Group A is significantly greater than that of sive pulmonary therapy was poorly appreciated Group C (p < 0.02). and before positive end-expiratory pressure When the children were analyzed separately, therapy was introduced. This child was treated the survival rates of Groups A and B did not ultraconservatively with an oxygen tent and, differ (p > 0.25). However, the percentages of since equipment for evaluation of arterial blood normal survivors were significantly greater gas tensions was not readily available in that hos- both in Group A and in Group B than in Group pital at the time, measurements of blood gases C (p < 0.00l). were not obtained until immediately before the When adults and children were combined, of MODELL, el at.: NEAR-DROWNING 213 the 121 total patients treated, 87 percent survived our 1976 series who had fixed dilated pupils on with apparently normal brain function, two per admission to the emergency room died. 4 Since cent survived with impaired brain function and 11 that time we have treated a patient who was com- per cent died (Table I). The survival rate of all atose, with fixed dilated pupils when admitted to patients who were awake when they entered the the hospital, but who made a normal recovery. hospital was significantly greater than that of both Since 100 per cent of our patients who were those who were admitted with blunted con- awake and 90 per cent of those who had blunted sciousness (p = 0.05) and those who were com- consciousness when they reached the emergency atose when admitted (p < 0.0001). Further, the room survived with normal brain function, and group whose members had blunted conscious- since the three in Group B who died were pulmo- ness had a significantly greater number of normal nary deaths, we believe that patients in categories survivors than the group whose members were A and B should be treated with intensive pulmo- comatose on admission (p < 0.002).
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