A STUDY ON INTERVENING MEASURES OF ACCIDENTAL SUFFOCATION AND DROWNING TO CHILDREN AGED 0-4 IN COUNTRYSIDE IN JIANGSU

Zhang P.B, Deng J.Y, Chen Y.H, et al
Children Health Care Research Center in Jingsu Province, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

 

Objective: In search of the intervening measures to decrease the children’s deaths due to accidental suffocation and drowning in countryside.

Methods: We survey the children aged 0-4 died from accidental suffocation and drowning in 6 counties in 1998-1999.

Results: The main cause of accidental suffocation was quilt suffocation. The main risk factors were infants tied in a candle with blanket, except for infants sleeping with their parents in the same beds. The main cause of drowning was falling into the river while the walking baby of one more year playing around the river. The children suffering from accidental suffocation and drowning didn't get first aid in spot.

Conclusions: Strengthening parents' opinions of keeping away unintentional injury, changing the poor behavior and environment and learning emergency treatment were important measures on intervening and controlling the occurrence and death of accidental suffocation and drowning.

 

 
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