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Surfactant Depletion Combined with Injurious Ventilation Results in a Reproducible Model of the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
Published on: April 7, 2021
Surfactant replacement therapy in a pediatric near-drowning case in manure
Meltem Ugras1, Ozlem Guraksin, Tolga Altug Sen
1Department of Pediatrics, Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey. meltemkorkut@yahoo.com
Abstract:
Drowning is defined as suffocation by submersion especially in water and is a leading cause of injury-related death in children. Age groups at greatest risk are toddlers and male adolescents. It is the second most common cause of accidental death in children after road accidents. Treatment consists of resuscitation and stabilization. The use of surfactant after near-drowning in water is reported in the literature in few case reports.We report here a boy whose condition did not get better with conventional treatment, but dramatically improved after surfactant treatment after near-drowning in a fluid with manure.
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