Swimming pool filter-induced transrectal evisceration in children: Australian experience.

Domestic swimming pool drowning in children. Positive results of a practical prevention program.

Awareness of swimming pool suction injury among tour operators.

A 6 year old girl suffered rectal prolapse after being sucked onto a swimming pool drain from which the cover had been removed. After six days in hospital she made a full recovery. The severe form of this injury may result in evisceration of small bowel, short bowel syndrome, and the need for long term parenteral nutrition. A survey of travel agents revealed a low awareness of this potentially ...

Caregiver factors and pool fencing: an exploratory analysis.

OBJECTIVES To explore the relationship between caregiver characteristics and the adequacy of domestic swimming pool fencing. SETTING A typical metropolitan area of a large Australian capital city, Brisbane. METHODS From a reanalysis of the dataset of the 1989 Brisbane Home Safety Survey of 1050 householders, associations between 10 caregiver factors, pool ownership, and quality of pool fenc...

EVIDENCE BASED PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY AND PRACTICE Assessing the health impact of local amenities: a qualitative study of contrasting experiences of local swimming pool and leisure provision in two areas of Glasgow

Study objective: To assess the health impacts of local public swimming pool and leisure provision. Design: Retrospective qualitative study using focus groups. Reports from two areas with contrasting experience of provision of a public swimming pool (opening and closure) were compared within the context of general reports about health and neighbourhood. Setting: Two deprived neighbourhoods in so...

Drowning fatalities of children in Tasmania: differences from national data.

All drownings of people under 15 years of age in Tasmania from 1981 to 1993 were identified from the Tasmanian coroner's case files. Age- and sex-specific mortality rates were calculated and found to be similar to Australian drowning mortality rates. An exception was the lower drowning rate for Tasmanian females aged 0 to 4 years. Only 9 per cent of drowning deaths were caused by immersion in a...