Portable pools can be very dangerous for children

In the months when the temperatures are highest, it is when more care must be taken if your little one is affection to spend the day inside a portable pool . A study conducted in E. U. describes that, every 5 days , a child dies a victim of drowning in this type of pool. According to the filmmakers of this research, this is an alert to create a culture Y education in the consumers.

The research published in the magazine Pediatrics , shows 209 deaths and almost 35 drowning of children under 12 between 2001 and 2009. Most of these (94%) are under 5 years old. It stipulates that 81% of accidents occurred during the months of summer .

"Anecdotal evidence suggests that because the portable pools they are available in many stores and malls, they are relatively cheap, parents buy them and take them home; assemble them quickly without paying attention to the forecasts on aspects of security ", says the Dr. Gary A. Smith , director of the Injury Research and Policy Center of the National Children's Hospital in Columbus and lead author of the study.

The study was carried out by researchers from the independent National Consulting and Security Hospital in Rockville, Maryland. Which say that the results are comparable to the Drowning related to buried pools .

"Many security methods used to permanent pools, such as fences, alarms for swimming pools, safety covers and removable or locked stairs, are too expensive or not available for families who buy portable pools ", He said Smith , who is also a professor of pediatrics at the Ohio State University School of Medicine.

Among other data, the report shows that if first aid care is administered before emergency teams arrive, it could be avoided. 15% of deaths . This figure helps to demonstrate that people should be required to learn how to do cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), as part of the curricula of secondary, upper secondary and higher education.

Susan Baker , a professor at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury and Policy Research in Baltimore, says: "That for me is a reminder that each of us must be well informed about how to do CPR and willing to act to do so immediately."

Gary A. Smith said that drownings in general, represent the second cause of death by injuries among young children and are different from others accidents in childhood because there is not a second chance. "I tell parents that the drowning is Quick , is silent And it is definitive "he concludes.


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