Does drowning not imply death? Is there different definition for drowning (or death) in medicine?
EDIT: I'm referring to the fact that the title says the girl drowned, not that she was at some point "drowning".
EDIT: I'm referring to the fact that the title says the girl drowned, not that she was at some point "drowning".
That quote is meant to be funny, but with modern medicine it's also true. The girl's heart wasn't beating for 2 hours, which meets most people's definition of dead. She was given CPR and proper treatment, so the fact that she survived is not too surprising in this day and age. What's absolutely amazing that she recovered from brain damage due to oxygen deprivation. Hopefully this isn't just a fluke.
It's no big deal, but I've also thought that if someone drowned it implies they died.
"Clinical death is the medical term for cessation of blood circulation and breathing[...] It occurs when the heart stops beating in a regular rhythm, a condition called cardiac arrest. The term is also sometimes used in resuscitation research.
Stopped blood circulation has historically proven irreversible in most cases. Prior to the invention of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), defibrillation, epinephrine injection, and other treatments in the 20th century, the absence of blood circulation (and vital functions related to blood circulation) was historically considered the official definition of death. With the advent of these strategies, cardiac arrest came to be called clinical death rather than simply death, to reflect the possibility of post-arrest resuscitation."
It usually leads to death but not always. You can end up with significant brain damage, due to oxygen deprivation, and still survive though.