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Accidental strangulation by a motor vehicle window
R H Strauss1, J E Thompson, A Macasaet
1Department of Pediatrics, Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center, La Crosse, WI 54601, USA.
Pediatric Emergency Care
|November 22, 1997
Objective:
To describe a child who was asphyxiated by a motor vehicle window and to review the relevant literature.
Design:
Case report.
Setting:
A 402-bed tertiary care medical center in La Crosse, WI.
Patient:
Four-year-old girl.
Interventions:
Supportive pediatric critical care.
Main Outcome Measures:
None.
Results:
The patient did not survive.
Conclusions:
Parents must assume responsibility for restraining their children in motor vehicles. Parents must not leave children alone in motor vehicles. Parents must become "more injury literate."