Sentences with phrase «submersion injuries»

More than four times as many children who die from drowning suffer from submersion injuries; these include memory problems, learning disabilities, and being left in a permanent vegetative state.

Since water submersion injuries deprive the brain of oxygen, surviving accident victims often suffer permanent brain damage.

For every person fatally injured as a result of a drowning accident, several more are injured in nonfatal submersion injuries.

The most dangerous injuries associated with swimming pools are submersion injuries, or those caused by being underwater for too long.