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for an injury associated with an inflatable bouncer
that's a child about every forty five minutes doctor gary smith the nationwide
children's hospital at the first national study of injuries associated
with inflatable bouncers and found
between nineteen ninety in two thousand ten nearly sixty five thousand children
were treated in hospital emergency departments for injuries one out of four
for broken bones since nineteen ninety-five injuries have shot up
fifteen full and continued to rise in fact there was a doubling of injuries in
recent years between two thousand eight and two thousand and baptism academic
by kenny definition kasi stapleton was one of those injured but just before she
and her dad went down an inflatable slide he took this photo
moments later he took his little girl to the hospital we've done and that's five
five six seven times the same way done the same time as this is particular
timely laughter bounce all over a little bit
to broker doctors that there was also a professor of pediatrics at the ohio
state university says that's proof that no matter how careful parents try to be
it's often not enough and something has to change because of the alarming rapid
rise in the number of injuries associated with inflatable bouncers
national safety guidelines
must be developed
it's time that we take action to help prevent
these injuries at nationwide children's hospital this is clark told reporters