Comment on Cerland, L. et al. Incidence and Consequences of Near-Drowning-Related Pneumonia—A Descriptive Series from Martinique, French West Indies. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2017, 14, 1402

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We read with great interest the recent paper by Cerland et al. on the frequency, nature, and consequences of post-drowning pneumonia[...]

Near-Drowning: To Be or Not to Be … Is It the Question?

“…We thank Dr. Queiroga and collaborators for the very nice letter [ 1 ] advising us to definitively abandon the term of “near drowning”, based on the Utstein-style guidelines for the uniform reporting of data from drowning, which was published in 2003 [ 2 ]. Interestingly, a 2005 systematic review of drowning reports found twenty different definitions for drowning, thirteen different definitions for near-drowning, and thirteen related terms in the reviewed articles [ 3 ].…”