Citation

Byard RW, Beal SM, Simpson A, Carter RF, Khong TY. Med. J. Aust. 1996; 165(3): 140-141.

Affiliation

Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, SA. rbyard@mad.adelaide.edu.au

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Australian Medical Association, Publisher Australasian Medical Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8709876

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.

Language: en