Accidental Choking in Children: An Area To Be Focused on

Choking is one of the important modes of death in young children who are dying of unintentional injuries. Anatomical and physiological characteristics while eating could increase the incidence of choking in children under four years. Here, we have described two classical cases of choking in young ch...

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Autores principales: Mayorathan, Uruthirapasupathi, Manikkavasakar, Sriluxayini, Pranavan, Sellaiah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Pediatrics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8942174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35345707
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22459
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author Mayorathan, Uruthirapasupathi
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description Choking is one of the important modes of death in young children who are dying of unintentional injuries. Anatomical and physiological characteristics while eating could increase the incidence of choking in children under four years. Here, we have described two classical cases of choking in young children and discussed the important areas to be addressed. Parental awareness and education will be the important strategy that can prevent the incidence of choking.
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spelling pubmed-89421742022-03-27 Accidental Choking in Children: An Area To Be Focused on Mayorathan, Uruthirapasupathi Manikkavasakar, Sriluxayini Pranavan, Sellaiah Cureus Pediatrics Choking is one of the important modes of death in young children who are dying of unintentional injuries. Anatomical and physiological characteristics while eating could increase the incidence of choking in children under four years. Here, we have described two classical cases of choking in young children and discussed the important areas to be addressed. Parental awareness and education will be the important strategy that can prevent the incidence of choking. Cureus 2022-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8942174/ /pubmed/35345707 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22459 Text en Copyright © 2022, Mayorathan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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