LAUSR

We appreciate the careful comments made by Queiroga and colleagues regarding the use of the term near drowning as opposed to nonfatal drowning in our recent article in Movement Disorders Clinical Practice. We obviously acknowledge the importance of using uniform and clear terminology, and we fully support the term nonfatal drowning, as advised by the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation and the World Health Organization. Our article was inspired by the stories of our patients regarding their swimming difficulties and earlier work by Neves and colleagues. It was composed by movement disorders specialists, rather than experts in drowning research, and coming from this different background, we were insufficiently aware of the appropriate terminology. We would like to thank the authors from the International Drowning Researchers’ Alliance for sharing their expertise on this important topic. We hope that through collaborations between movement disorders experts and drowning researchers, this cumbersome, underexposed, and not rarely dangerous symptom of Parkinson’s disease can be optimally mapped and treated in the future.