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This is Patrick Georgoff, and I am thrilled to be back with another episode in our Big T trauma

series where we talk shop about trauma care. This series gets his name from the University of Texas

at Houston Memorial Hermon Red Duke Trauma Institute, one of the busiest trauma centers in the

entire country. And today, we are joined by Dr. Teddy Pousio, one of my former co-fellows and current faculty at UT Houston, pediatric trauma expert, Dr. Charles Cox, also out of UT Houston, and Dr. Tyler Simpson, a trauma fellow at Duke University. All right, Teddy, enlighten us. What is on tap for today's episode?

All right. So today we're going to run through a handful of case-based scenarios to highlight

trauma pearls and pitfalls, except this time we're sticking to pediatric pearls and pitfalls.

These topics are high yield. So tune in. Stay focused because, as I like to say, the eyes do not see

what the mind does not know.

Yeah.

Teddy, that's true.

Thanks for inviting me back for another episode, episode number 900 and whatever it is now.

Pediatric trauma is common, even in the adult trauma centers.

But there are some key distinctions from the adult

population in terms of physiology, injury patterns, decision making, and hopefully today we'll be

able to highlight some of these distinctions. Yeah, couldn't agree more. And beyond those distinctions,

pediatric trauma is particularly tough. It's emotional. It's a real gut punch when you see a child

injured. I think that's

especially true if you happen to be a parent. And that's why we're doing this episode. So you can

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