Accidental infant death and stroller prams
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1996
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Byard, R.
Beal, S.
Simpson, A.
Carter, R.
Khong, T.
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Medical Journal of Australia, 1996; 165(3):140-141
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R.W. Byard, S.M. Beal, A. Simpson, R.F. Carter, T.Y. Khong
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A three-month-old boy and an eight-month-old boy died from accidental positional asphyxia and hanging, respectively, after being placed to sleep unsupervised in stroller-prams. Both infants had moved down towards the fronts of the stroller-prams. The younger infant fell out when the footplate collapsed and he was found hanging from a metal bar on the side. The older infant had partly slipped through the front and was suspended with his head and arms within the stroller-pram and with his face pushed firmly into the mattress by a horizontal metal bar. Stroller-prams are a potentially dangerous sleeping environment unless infants are closely supervised gaps in the front of stroller-prams closed and upright footplates stabilised.
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