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Infant and Child Death Review teams flag sleep‑related deaths, drownings and firearm involvement in adolescent suicides
Summary
Arkansas Infant and Child Death Review teams told the committee they reviewed 110 eligible pediatric deaths in 2020 (188 cases were eligible), found motor vehicle crashes and sleep‑related asphyxia among leading causes of accidental and undetermined deaths, and identified firearms as a leading contributor to adolescent suicide deaths.
Hope Mullins, director of injury prevention at Arkansas Children’s, and Dawn Porter, community program supervisor for the Arkansas Infant and Child Death Review (ICDR) program, presented the ICDR annual executive summary to the committee and described prevention recommendations derived from case reviews.
Mullins and Porter said Arkansas recorded 470 deaths of children ages 0–17 in 2020, of which 188 were eligible for ICDR…
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