That can prevent a devastating injury. But knee and elbow pads can prevent some pretty nasty injuries. These jet skis offer little protection, are difficult to control, and go too fast. It terribly impairs judgment and your awareness of the environment. Like Dr. Shook, Dr. Adame believes supervision is critical for children's safety.
Small children require supervision, it's that simple.
And while they're being supervised they can be instructed in water safety and sports safety. At Ben Taub's emergency center we see an increase in cardiac cases each summer. Dr. Zimmerman and her team have come to be able to predict there will be an influx of cardiac and other cases as the number of days of sustained humidity and heat grows. She worries especially about the elderly. It's difficult for an older person with cardiac problems to do this for a long period, and so we see more attacks and angina - more of these than we see heat stroke.