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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 07:23 AM
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Toddler survives pool 'drowning'
A two-year-old girl has made an almost complete recovery after spending nearly 20 minutes at the bottom of a pool.

Scans showed Oluchi Nwaubani had been starved of oxygen for some 18 minutes - three times longer than the brain can usually survive.

Despite being warned that even if she were to live she may never walk or talk again, her parents say she can run around and say "what she wants".

Doctors say while the case is highly unusual, it is not unprecedented

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7881143.stm

Nice to get good news for a change. What a lovely looking child and such a sweet smile.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 07:35 AM
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1. Yep all good news is welcome
Lucky kid.
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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 07:57 AM
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2. Wonderful news. We should ban pools however because they are the leading cause of accidental death
for children 1-2.
Leading Causes of 20 Leading Causes of Unintentional Injury Deaths, United States AGE 1-2
1 Unintentional Drowning 354
2 Unintentional MV Traffic 257
3 Unintentional Fire/burn 109
4 Unintentional Pedestrian, Other 99
5 Unintentional Suffocation 90
6 Unintentional Natural/ Environment 25
7 Unintentional Fall 20
8 Unintentional Poisoning 16
9 Unintentional Struck by or Against 14
10 Unintentional Unspecified 11
11 Unintentional Other Land Transport 9
12 Unintentional Other Spec., classifiable 7
13 Unintentional Firearm 6
14 Unintentional Machinery 4
15 Unintentional Cut/pierce 2
16 Unintentional Other Spec., NECN 2

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