Table 1 Drowning grade derived from Szpilman et al. [2, 13]
From: Seawater drowning-associated pneumonia: a 10-year descriptive cohort in intensive care unit
Grade | Initial clinical description |
|---|---|
1 | Answer to verbal or tactile stimuli with normal pulmonary auscultation but cough |
2 | Answer to verbal or tactile stimuli with rales in some pulmonary fields |
3 | Answer to verbal or tactile stimuli with rales in all pulmonary fields without hypotension or shock |
4 | Answer to verbal or tactile stimuli with rales in all pulmonary fields and hypotension or shock |
5 | No answer to verbal or tactile stimuli with presence of pulse |
6 | No answer to verbal or tactile stimuli without presence of pulse and less than one hour of Immersion and no obvious physical evidence of death |