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Accidental infant death and stroller‐prams
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Accidental infant death and stroller‐prams

Abstract

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 …

Authors

Byard RW; Beal SM; Simpson A; Carter RF; Khong TY

Journal

The Medical Journal of Australia, Vol. 165, No. 3, pp. 140–141

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Date

August 1996

DOI

10.5694/j.1326-5377.1996.tb124887.x

ISSN

0025-729X