Brain Resuscitation in the Drowning Victim Task Force on Brain Resuscitation Section editors: David Warner and Johannes Knape 8.1 Overview 435 David Warner and Johannes Knape 8.2 Consensus and Recommendations 436 David Warner and Johannes Knape 8.3 Prehospital and Emergency Department Management of the Drowning Victim 439 Laurence Katz 8.4 Intensive Care Management of the Drowning Victim 443 Udo Illievich 8.5 Paediatric Considerations 447 Patrick Kochanek 8.6 Neuromonitoring in the Intensive Care Unit for the Drowning Victim 449 Cor Kalkman 8.7 Neurochemical Markers of Brain Injury 453 Bengt Nellgård 8.8 Post-hypoxic Treatment with Pharmacologic Agents 455 Takefumi Sakabe Section 8