title: 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 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.
authors.affiliation: Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, SA. rbyard@mad.adelaide.edu.au
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Byard
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Beal
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Simpson
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Carter
authors.forename: T Y
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Khong
mesh_terms: D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000209:etiology*; D001237:Asphyxia / Q000209:etiology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D015370:Infant Equipment / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008297:Male