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Keeping Kids Safe Around Swimming Pools. Kansas City Beware, Be Safe!

Swimming pools are a great place to cool off and have fun in the summertime, but they are also a prime place for people to get injured, mostly children, including right here in Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas. The two most common injuries sustained at a pool are slipping on the water around the outside of the pool, or drowning. 

Brain injuries from near-drowning can be worse than suffering a TBI from a blow to the head. When someone is submerged in water it causes a lack of oxygen and blood to the brain, which is called hypoxemia.
When this happens it does not cause injury to just one section of the brain, it causes damage to the entire brain unlike most brain injures from a blow to the head.

Three thousand children a year make trips to the emergency room for submersion injuries, a fair proportion of those in Missouri and Kansas.

Children do things to put themselves in harms way such as jump off trees, roofs, and fences into the pool, but some miss the pool entirely. 

Tips to keep children safe at the pool:

Never leave a child unattended even if they know how to swim. Children horseplay and don't make smart ecisions.
(When small children fall in the water they usually don't panic, they just sink to the bottom of the pool unnoticed. BEWARE!).

Even if a child has a floatie, that is no substitute for adult supervision.

In most areas having a barrier around a pool is the law. A fence is a good barrier, it prevents children from wandering into your pool.

It is a good idea to keep a lifesaver or a pool net or brush (with a long handle) by the pool to have someone struggling in the water to grab onto. 

Pool owners should know cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, this can be a lifesaver when someone comes close to drowning.

Keeping the water clean and free of bacteria is crucial when it comes to child safety. Recreational water illnesses can occur from improper hygiene and/or chemical levels in the pool. It is important to keep the PH level between 7.2 and 7.8 and keep the chlorine levels between 1 part per million and 3 parts per million. Levels should be checked daily.    

Talk to your kids about pool safety and your expectations around the pool.

Experienced brain injury and pool drowning lawyer James Roswold and his team of brain injury and pool drowning attorneys at the Kansas City based Roswold have seen too many child injury cases involving the pool. James Roswold knows firsthand the permanent, tragic and catastrophic injuries that can occur when a child so quickly suffers a drowning or near drowning in the pool. His 19 years of work experience and witness to the pain and suffering of children keeps him hyper vigilant involving his own children, and as an attorney dedicated to preventing injury to children he has a special interest in reminding others of the tragedy he so often sees at his Kansas City and Overland Park personal injury law office. Call for free information and legal assistance if necessary.

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