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Jason Woods

Jason Woods

Pediatric emergency medicine physician and Associate Professor at University of Colorado School of Medicine; host of the Little Big Med podcast

Jun 23, 2026

8:52
Can you share what those layers look like?
8:54
Yeah.
8:55
The first, I think, is the one that most of us obviously think of, and that is swim lessons, to make sure that children have both the physical ability and some of the decision-making capacity to know what to do, either if they are intentionally in water and they get into trouble, or they find themselves accidentally in.
9:11
You know, they fall off the, the side of a pool or, or into a river or a lake.
9:15
And, um, uh, that I feel like has been a recommendation for a long time, is early, uh, swimming lessons for all children.
9:25
Um, the second big category is, uh, structural, I guess, um, where, uh, the recommendations are that all, all pools have a fence that is non-climbable and is at least four feet in height that's completely surrounds a pool.
9:42
Um, that the gates to any pool or any pool area, uh, automatically lock and automatically close, and then are not easily, uh, able to be opened by children.

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23:36
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