Drowning and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. Relevance of the Problem and Effect of Physical Training on Resuscitation Quality

Abstract

"Every hour, every day, more than 40 people lose their lives by drowning." These are the first words of one of the different Drowning reports published by the World Health Organization, which consideres Drowning as a neglected public health issue. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is the main early treatment in the unconscious not-breating Drowning patient, and it is broached from the Sport Sciences field. Therefore, in this Thesis by Compendium of Publications, the aim was to review the main important factors related to Drowning. In addition, acute muscle fatigue casued by cardiopulmonary resuscitation was assesed just as the effect of a strength-training program in resuscitation quality.