Drowning

Drowning

Each year, children die from drowning in pools. To these are added the drownings occurred in domestic accidents,including drowning baby in a bathtub. Such accidents mainly affects children under five years. Remember that a babycan drown in a few inches of water.

No fewer than a hundred children die by drowning in France. This is the first cause of death by accident of everyday life between 1 and 14.

How to react?
 

If you are attending a drowning, do not put your life in danger. Thus, it is preferable to launch a floating object in the direction of the victim rather than to take the plunge. Indeed laborers extraction of water is difficult and reserved for professionals. Perform first aid once the victim out of the water.V

  If the embedded unconscious and not breathing

	Take the pulse at the carotid artery - the artery of the neck, then immediately begin mouth-to mouth or mouth-to-nose-and-mouth case of a baby. At the same time, do raise the alarm and call the SAMU (15).
	Continue CPR until resumption of spontaneous breathing or until help arrives.

If the victim is unconscious and breathing

Carefully tilt the head back and drowned the place in recovery position.

Meanwhile, give the alarm by calling EMS (15). Watch for breathing so close and until help arrived.

If victim is conscious

Undress her, remove his wet clothing and warm it. Watch then until help arrives.
Some precautions to prevent child drowning

To avoid drowning in the home, it is imperative to never leave a child alone in the bath, especially if aged less than three years.

With regard to private pools, it is necessary:

     * Explain the risk to the child rather than to prohibit him dryly this hobby;
     * To protect the entire pool by a fence or electronic alarm system;
     * To use buoys or life jackets for young children;
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       Learn to swim young children as soon as possible.

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