Drowning

[Doowai]

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A coah drowned in his swimming pool here. Young. No evidence of MI. Not drunk.

How does that happen?

Suicide?

How could someone suck in enough water like that?

Are their mitigating circumstances that would make it more likely- heat exhaustion/sweating leading to electrolyte disturbances, making a little inhaled water more likely to cause cardiac arrest.

 

[Rendar5]

What's a coah?

 

[deleted65604]

Dry drowning, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/110157.php

http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic744.htm

 

[pseudoknot]

What's a coah?

Maybe a "coach?"

 

[Doowai]

Maybe a "coach?"

Yeah, coach

 

[Doowai]

How much water does someone have to suck in

 

[deleted109597]

How much water does someone have to suck in

None. They just need to not be able to oxygenate. I suppose in theory that everyone that dies aspirates at least some water, you don't actually have to do so to asphyxiate.

As far as the real question, it is different in everyone based on underlying pulmonary disease, lung volume, surfactant genetics, and likely what day of the week it is.

 

[Apollyon]

Just hitting the vocal cords with some water can cause laryngospasm, and lead to death (the so-called "dry drowning"). That can be 1 ounce.