Sentences with phrase «cause accidental suffocation»

Cars, for example, must have working brakes; children's cribs can not be built in such a way that they cause accidental suffocation.

That because too much bedding, or the wrong kind of bedding, can cause accidental suffocation and overheating, which are believed to be a risk factor for sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS.

Not exact matches

Of the three common causes — SIDS, unknown cause, and accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed — the first one caused the most number of deaths at 43 percent.

By assuming before any facts are known from the pathologist's death scene and toxicological report that any bedsharing baby was a victim of an accidental suffocation rather than from some congenital or natural cause, including SIDS unrelated to bedsharing, medical authorities not only commit a form of scientific fraud but they victimize the doomed infant's parents for a third time.

According to Dr. Cheryl Cipriani, an associate professor of pediatrics at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Scott & White hospital, as people have gotten better at identifying causes of death, some deaths that once were simply unexplained might now be attributed to accidental suffocation or strangulation rather than SIDS.

This hazard, which includes choking, suffocation, and strangulation, is the number one cause of accidental death among babies under age 1.

Babies under twelve months, and especially during their first five months, are at risk of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) which can result from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), accidental suffocation or unknown causes.

Such causes included accidental smothering by an adult, getting trapped between the mattress and headboard or other furniture, and suffocation on a soft waterbed mattress.

At one extreme, some certifiers have abandoned using SIDS as a cause - of - death explanation.7 At the other extreme, some certifiers will not classify a death as suffocation in the absence of a pathologic marker of asphyxia at autopsy (ie, pathologic findings diagnostic of oronasal occlusion or chest compression8), even with strong evidence from the scene investigation that suggests a probable accidental suffocation.

Less infants die from all other top ten causes of accidental injury death combined than from sleep - related accidental suffocation, sleep - deprived mothers driving with their babies in the car off the cliff included.

The risk factors and causes of SUDEP remain unclear but researchers have proposed explanations ranging from irregular heart rhythm to genetic predisposition to accidental suffocation during sleep.

About 3,500 infants die each year from SIDS, accidental suffocation or strangulation and unknown causes.

It encompasses a range of situations, including sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), which refers to deaths that remain unexplained after a thorough investigation, and deaths found to result from accidental strangulation or suffocation caused by factors such as unsafe bedding, becoming trapped between a mattress and a wall, or sleeping with a parent or another adult who inadvertently blocks the infant's airway.

Leading causes of accidental injury at home are burns, drowning, suffocation, choking, poisonings, falls, and fire arms.