PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Giammona, Samuel T.
TI  - <span class="sc">The Pathophysiology and Treatment of Drowning and Near-Drowning,</span> by Jerome H. Modell, M.D. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C Thomas, 1971, 119 pp., $9.50
DP  - 1972 Sep 01
TA  - Pediatrics
PG  - 509--509
VI  - 50
IP  - 3
4099  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/50/3/509.1.short
4100  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/50/3/509.1.full
SO  - Pediatrics1972 Sep 01; 50
AB  - This is a timely, concise book concerning drowning and near-drowning in which the latest scientific information as well as discussion of previous and current concepts concerning these problems are presented lucidly. Dr. Modell has had extensive clinical experience in Florida handling the drowning and near-drowning victim. He devotes the major part of his presentation to an explanation, based on his laboratory investigations and review of other works, of the pathophysiology in drowning and near-drowning. Especially pertinent is the chapter on serum electrolyte changes, in which the differences between fresh water and sea water near-drowning reveal that correction of electrolyte disturbances is of secondary rather than primary importance in the treatment of most human victims in near-drowning as the changes attributed to the composition and the tonicity of the fluid aspirated are not as important as previously stressed.