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You could wash one lung at a time. Or use extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

Water in an of itself won't hurt lungs as long as the patient gets enough oxygen.

"Water in an of itself won't hurt lungs"

If you ever get saved from near drowning, you are still not safe.

I imagine you would have to use saline rather than plain water to avoid the lung cells bursting due to osmosis.