PEDIATRICS Vol. 94 No. 1 July 1994, pp. 113-114
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Unexpected Death Due to Acute Airway Obstruction in Daycare Centers

Roger W. Byard MBBS, FCAP1

1 Department of Histopathology, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, 5006, South Australia, Australia

Sudden collapse due to acute upper aerodigestive tract obstruction in infants and young children is most often caused by ingested food or toy parts.1,2 Although attention has been previously drawn to the different pattern of food asphyxiation in children compared with adults,2 the following two cases taken from the autopsy files of the Adelaide Children's Hospital over a 20-year period demonstrate particular risk factors associated with young children eating in daycare centers.

CASE REPORTS

Case 1

A 19-month-old healthy boy was eating a sausage happily in a daycare center when last observed by a caretaker who was then absent for several minutes.

Submitted on September 20, 1993
Accepted on November 19, 1993




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