A 40 year old woman has lost his life on Thursday afternoon when he suffered immersion syndrome while bathing in the Percheles beachlocated in the Murcian town of Mazarrón.
Around 6:35 p.m., Mazarrón Civil Protection notified the 112 Emergency Coordination Center that members of the Plan Copla tried to rescue a person from the water on the beach.
three lifeguards They pulled the woman out of the water in an unconscious state. She suffered from immersion syndrome and cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers were performed on her, also by the medical personnel of a medicalized ambulance of the Emergency Management and Sanitary Emergencies, but finally passed away.
Also known as hydrocution (or even digestion cutoff), immersion syndrome occurs when the body comes into contact with cold water very quickly as a consequence of a thermal shock.