PEDIATRICS Vol. 64 No. 1 July 1979, pp. 68-70
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Bathtub Drownings: Report of Seven Cases

John H. Pearn MD, PhD (Lond) BSc, FRACP, DCH (Lond), MRCP (UK)1, Joseph Brown III MD1, Richard Wong MD1, and Robert Bart MD1

1 Department of Pediatrics, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Department of Child Health, Brisbane, Australia; Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, City and County of Honolulu

The domestic bathtub is an important site for infant drownings. A total population study of drowning and near-drowning accidents involving Honolulu infants has enabled the risks to be specified with greater detail. A series of seven consecutive bathtub immersion accidents is presented. The "at risk" profile comprises highly mobile families of bower socioeconomic status; usually younger siblings in larger families are involved and often the father had immediate care of the infant at the time of the accident. Another case of bathtub immersion as a form of nonaccidental injury is described. In five of the other six cases reported, the drowned child was left attended by an older sibling. Preventive strategies are discussed.

Submitted on August 24, 1978
Accepted on November 6, 1978




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