Objective: To describe a child who was asphyxiated by a motor vehicle window and to review the relevant literature.
Design: Case report.
Setting: A 402-bed tertiary care medical center in La Crosse, WI.
Patient: Four-year-old girl.
Interventions: Supportive pediatric critical care.
Main Outcome Measures: None.
Results: The patient did not survive.
Conclusions: Parents must assume responsibility for restraining their children in motor vehicles. Parents must not leave children alone in motor vehicles. Parents must become "more injury literate."
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