Summer has started and the fun has begun. Trips to the beach and lounging by the pool are what many people have on their mind.
What they don’t plan on is a child drowning, or landing in a hospital because of dehydration or a disease after a bug bites.
But those things happen.
Trauma centers across the nation can attest to that, according to Kim Everett, trauma prevention coordinator of St. Mary Medical Center in Middletown.
“Drowning is a huge problem with children between the ages of 1 and 4,” Everett said. “Most drownings occur in private homes according to our records.”
Such tragedies can be prevented, according to Everett and Safe Kids USA, a nonprofit organization solely dedicated to eliminating preventable childhood injuries.
One of the most important moves would be for adults to learn adult and child CPR, since 88 percent of children have drowned under adult supervision, Safe Kids states on its website, www.safekids.org. Administering CPR immediately after finding a child unresponsive in a pool can make the difference between life and death, according to Safe Kids.
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