Accidental infant death and stroller‐prams

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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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