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When Grandkids Stay Over You May Want to Record
Mother's Alarm Voice
Parent voice alarm superior to
smoke alarm at awakening children
 October
3, 2006 – When the grandkids come over to spend the night, you may want
to have their mother make a voice recording yelling the first names of
the kids and telling them to get out of bed and leave the room. New
research says this does a much better job of awakening young children
than do traditional smoke alarms.
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Approximately half of residential fire deaths occur
at night, when victims are asleep. Even in daytime fires, many deaths
occur as a result of the victim being asleep at the time of the
emergency. Alarmingly, it has been found that conventional residential
tone smoke alarms fail to awaken the majority of children 6- to
12-years-old during stage 4 sleep.
A study published in the October issue of
Pediatrics and conducted by the Center for Injury Research and Policy (CIRP)
in the Columbus Children’s Research Institute at Columbus Children’s
Hospital and the Sleep Disorder Center at Columbus Children’s Hospital,
is the first to compare the ability of different types of alarms to
awaken children while monitoring sleep stage.
According to the study, a personalized parent-voice
alarm at 100-dB successfully awakened 96 percent of the children 6- to
12-years-old from stage 4 sleep (the deepest stage of sleep) with 83
percent of them successfully performing a simulated self-rescue escape
procedure.
This significantly outperformed a residential tone
alarm which only awakened 58 percent of the same children with only 38%
percent successfully performing the escape procedure. One child in the
study did not awaken to either smoke alarm.
“These findings suggest a clear direction for
future research, as well as important fundamental changes in smoke alarm
design, that address the unique developmental needs of children,” said
the study’s co-author Gary Smith, MD, DrPH, director of CIRP in Columbus
Children’s Research Institute and a faculty member of The Ohio State
University College of Medicine.
“The development of a more effective smoke alarm
for use in homes and other locations where children sleep provides an
opportunity to reduce fire-related morbidity and mortality among
children.”
Using a randomized, nonblinded, clinical research
design, a volunteer sample of 24 healthy children 6- to 12-years-old was
enrolled in the study. Children were trained how to perform a simulated
self-rescue escape procedure when they heard an alarm. The smoke alarms
used specifically for this study were much louder than commercially
available alarms.
Each child’s mother recorded a voice alarm message,
“First name! First name! Wake up! Get out of bed! Leave the room!” For
each child, either the voice or tone alarm was randomly selected and
triggered during the first cycle of stage 4 sleep, and then the other
alarm was triggered during the second cycle of stage 4 sleep.
“Various factors may have been important to the
success of the parent voice alarm, including the stimulus intensity, the
characteristics of the sound system used, the use of the child’s first
name in the alarm message and the child’s recognition of his/her
mother’s voice,” said the study’s co-author Mark Splaingard, MD,
director of the Sleep Disorder Center at Children’s Hospital and a
faculty member of The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
“However, the relative contribution of each factor is currently
unknown.”
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