Well, there’s ‘wet’ drowning, and ‘dry’ drowning. In the former, the lungs do fill up, in the latter, they do not. Rather in the latter, the person submerged experiences laryngeal spasm, which prevents the lungs from filling with water.
Both types of folks are pulseless non-breathers due to submersion incidents, though.
It gets complicated depending on whether they were wet or dry drowning victims, fresh or salt water, plus a few other things.
No time to elaborate now, maybe later.
I hope he doesn’t need the answer fast, doc.
Easiest when they’re only ‘mostly drowned’.
Should we be worried that Boyo Jim hasn’t replied yet?
Hard to paddle and type with frozen fingers.
I wonder if one of these things would help people who had inhaled water into their lungs? (Once they’d been resuscitated, of course.)
IANAD, but I don’t think so. I’m fairly certain you can only remove water from the lungs by coughing it up.