Mon, 07 Aug 2006

Study finds safety intervention increases use of child safety restraints in shopping carts

Seat belts for kids in shopping carts ...[sigh] ... I'm not so sure we're a nation of wimps as much as we are a land of idiots. A few brain cells in the parents head would prevent more injuries than all the seat belts and airbags they could fit in one of the damned things. But that'd be asking too much, I suppose. I mean, who wants to actually think about safety? That's somebody else's job, right?

A study published in the August issue of Pediatrics reports more than 20,000 children were treated in United States hospital emergency departments in 2005 for shopping cart-related injuries. The study conducted by the Columbus Children's Research Institute at Columbus Children's Hospital found that an in-store safety intervention successfully increased the use of child safety restraints in shopping carts. Researchers suggest redesigning shopping carts to prevent falls and tipovers.

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On 8/7/2006 12:56:48
Bjorngrímnir wrote

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