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As parents who have small children, we must often feel worried if you do not find them in the house. This is something that is reasonable because the children liked and went to something they find interesting. But without the child knowing that they actually are in a hazard that may occur around our house, especially if we have a deep pool.

Swimming pool safety should be taken very seriously. Make sure you have safeguards in place to protect your own children and others from the neighborhood. Most people have the obvious taken care of. They make sure their own kids can swim, install fences to keep other kids from wandering in, put high locks on the gates, and maybe even install door alarms so they know when their kids go out. But what happens when the unexpected happens, and a small child passes through all those safeguards you have put in place? All those safeguards are equally important, but don’t ever feel completely safe without adding a pool alarm as your last layer of protection. Most local codes departments now require them for new pool installations, but don’t require people with existing pools to go back and install them. Pool alarms electronically monitor the pool and sound an alarm when anything, including pets, enters the pool. When triggered, a loud pulsating alarm will sound at the pool and at a remote unit inside your home. Following are some very interesting and scary statistics to consider.

In 2004, there were 3,308 unintentional drownings in the United States, an average of nine people per day. (CDC 2006)

Fatal drowning remains the second-leading cause of unintentional injury-related death for children ages 1 to 14 years. (CDC 2005)

Children ages 1 to 4 years most likely drown in residential pools.

70% of children who drown in residential pools had been:

1. Last seen inside their home
2. Within the last 5 minutes
3. With one or both parents supervising

It is estimated that for each drowning death, there are 1 to 4 nonfatal submersions serious enough to result in hospitalization. Children who still require cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at the time they arrive at the emergency department have a poor prognosis, with at least half of survivors suffering significant neurologic impairment.