Preventing children drowning

Pool fencing for preventing drowning in children.

BACKGROUND In most industrialized countries, drowning ranks second or third behind motor vehicles and fires as a cause of unintentional injury deaths to children under the age of 15. Death rates from drowning are highest in children less than five years old. Pool fencing is a passive environmental intervention designed to reduce unintended access to swimming pools and thus prevent drowning in t...

Preventing Drowning: What You Should Know.

Secondary drowning in children.

Secondary drowning (and near-drowning) is one of the post-immersion respiratory syndromes. It is defined as deterioration of pulmonary function that follows deficient gas exchange due to loss or inactivation of surfactant. A review of 94 consecutive cases of near-drowning in childhood showed that this syndrome occurred in five (5%) cases. Its onset was usually rapid and characterised by a laten...

Secondary drowning in children.

A survey of inventions aimed at preventing drowning.

Drowning is a major global injury problem and is the second leading cause of unintentional injury death after road traffic injuries. As a result, many inventions to prevent drowning and to rescue drowning victims have been made over the years. Because information about many of these inventions that exists in patent databases is not found in the injury literature, many academic injury researcher...