The Susy Safe project overview after the first four years of activity
Journal
International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
Journal Volume
76
Pages
S3-S11
Date Issued
2012
Author(s)
Gregori, Dario
Foltran, Francesca
Ballali, Simonetta
Berchialla, Paola
Rodriguez, Hugo
Zaupa, Paola
Spitzer, Peter
Demetriades, Costantinos
Slapak, Ivo
Sokolova, Ljiljana
Petridou, Eleni
D'Alessandro, Antonella
Caldeira Pais Clemente, Manuel Antonio
Jakubikova, Jana
Van As, Sebastian
De Koning, Ton
Passali, Desiderio
Chinsky, Alberto
Rodriguez, Hugo
Brkic, Fuad
Mladina, Ranko
Kalakouta, Olga
Melis, Andreas
Machalova, Michaela
Caye-Thomasen, Per
Elsheikh, Enas
Ragab, Ahmed
Pitkaranta, Anne
Necker, Philippe Contencin
Derelle, Jocelyne
Duwelz, Magali
Francois, Martine
Pezzettigotta, Stephane
Righini, Christian
Stephane, Pezzettigotta
Buzarov, Jane
Bernhard, Roehrich
Jahnke, Volker
Onder, Goktas
Zieriacks, Petra
Kalampoki, Vicky
Simasko, Nikola
Skoulakis, Charalampos
Camaioni, Angelo
Cutrone, Cesare
Gaudini, Elisa
Grasso, Domenico
Mansi, Nicola
Messi, Gianni
Orlando, Claudio
Preziosi, Sabino
Sorrentini, Italo
Trozzi, Marilena
Vigo, Alessandro
Villari, Giuseppe
Passali, Giulio Cesare
Passali, Francesco Maria
Nishida, Yoshifumi
Ussatayeva, Gainel
De Hoyos, Ricardo
Ologe, Foluwasayo Emmanuel
Nasrullah, Muazzam
Melendez, Amarilis
Chmielik, Mieckzyslaw
Belchior, Teresa
Cobzeanu, Mihail Dan
Gheorghe, Dan Cristian
Lorgulescu, Adelaida
Caius-Codrut
Toader, Miorita
Barkociova, Jana
Havelkova, Beata
Zargi, Miha
Pumarola, Felix
Rubio, Lorenzo
Stierna, Pontus
Hsu, Wei-Chung
Arj-Ong, Sakda
Chomchai, Chulathida
Hoep, Lennaert
Rinkel, Rico
Baskent, Erdinc Aydin
Erikci, Volkan Sarper
Onerci, Metin
Graham, John
Khwaja, Sadie
Abstract
Objectives: to collect relevant, up-to-date, representative, accurate, systematic information, related to foreign bodies (FB) injuries. Methods: The "Susy Safe" registry, a DG SANCO co-funded project gathering data on choking in all EU Countries and beyond, was established in order to create surveillance systems for suffocation injuries able to provide a risk-analysis profile for each of the products causing the injury. Main findings after 4 years of activities are resumed here. Results: 16,878 FB injuries occurred in children aged 0-14 years have been recorded in the SUSY SAFE databases; 8046 cases have been reported from countries outside EU. Almost one quart of the cases involving very young children (less than one year of age) presented a FB located in bronchial tract, thus representing a major threat to their health. Esophageal foreign bodies are still characterizing injuries occurred to children younger than one year, in older children the most common locations are the ears and the nose. FB type was specified in 10,564 cases. Food objects represented the 26% of the cases, whereas non-food objects were the remaining 74%. Among food objects, the most common were bones, nuts and seed, whereas for the non-food objects pearls, balls and marbles were observed most commonly (29%). Coins were involved in 15% of the non-food injuries and toys represented the 4% of the cases. Conclusions: this data collection system should be been taken into consideration for the calculation of the risk of injuries in order to provide the EU Commission with all the relevant estimates on FB injuries. ? 2012 Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
Other Subjects
adolescent; age distribution; article; asthma; bronchus perforation; child; child hospitalization; child safety; disease registry; disease surveillance; endoscopic surgery; esophagus foreign body; Europe; female; food foreign body; foreign body; foreign body aspiration; health hazard; health survey; human; incidence; infant; lung infection; major clinical study; male; non food foreign body; pneumonia; preschool child; priority journal; product safety; register; risk assessment; sex ratio; Adolescent; Airway Obstruction; Child; Child, Preschool; Europe; Female; Foreign Bodies; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Male; Registries; Risk Factors
Type
journal article