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I'm Hello everyone and welcome once again to PDACast.

It is a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike coming to you from the campus of Nationwide Children's Hospital.

We are in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 560.

We're calling this one child passenger safety.

I want to welcome all of you to the program.

So we all want to keep our kids safe, right?

I mean, that's a really important goal for parents everywhere.

However, there is a dangerous activity that most of us do with our kids

very frequently, sometimes every day. And that is driving them around in the family vehicle.

Turns out that motor vehicle accidents are a leading cause of death for children four years

of age and older, but it also turns out we can greatly

reduce their risk of death with the proper selection, positioning, use, and maintenance of car

seats and booster seats. Now, this isn't always as easy as it sounds, and from the lens of

many parents, car seats and booster seats, seat recommendations may feel a little bit confusing and a bit of a moving target, literally. No pun intended there. It is a moving target, and that is because things have changed over the course of the last 10, 15 years or so, certainly 15 to 20 years ago. So this is going to be the time when grandparents

had their kids. The recommendations were quite different back then. And so you may have a family

member who is giving you one piece of advice. But the advice now is not the advice that it was

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