The Susy Safe project overview after the first four years of activity

• Authors: GREGORI Dario; FOLTRAN Francesca; BALLALI Simonetta; BERCHIALLA Paola; RODRIGUEZ Hugo; ZAUPA Paola; SPITZER Peter; DEMETRIADES Costantinos; ŠLAPÁK Ivo; SOKOLOVA Ljiljana; PETRIDOU Eleni; D'ALESSANDRO Antonella; CALDEIRA PAIS CLEMENTE Manuel Antonio; JAKUBÍKOVÁ Jana; VAN AS Sebastian; DE KONING Ton; PASSALI Desiderio; CHINSKY Alberto; RODRIGUEZ Hugo; BRKIC Fuad; MLADINA Ranko; KALAKOUTA Olga; MELIS Andreas; MÁCHALOVÁ Michaela; CAYE-THOMASEN Per; ELSHEIKH Enas; RAGAB Ahmed; PITKARANTA Anne; NECKER Philippe Contencin; DERELLE Jocelyne; DUWELZ Magali; FRANCOIS Martine; PEZZETTIGOTTA Stephane; RIGHINI Christian; PEZZETTIGOTTA Stephane; 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; IORGULESCU Adelaida; CAIUS Codrut; TOADER Miorita; BARKOCIOVÁ Jana; HAVELKOVÁ 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; RAINE Christopher
• Year of publication: 2012
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Medicine
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijporl.2012.02.003
• Field: Paediatry
• Keywords: Susy Safe registry; Risk assessment
• Description: 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.