This is Pediacast.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome.

Once again to Pediacast.

It's a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike, coming to you from the campus of nationwide children's hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It is episode 380 for July 12th, 2017.

We're calling this one drowning, story time, and dosing errors. I want to welcome everyone to the program.

We have a big mid-summer pediatric news edition of the show for you this week.

Lots of what I would consider interesting topics, since I did hand-pick them for you.

Hopefully you'll agree with me that they're interesting.

And I'll get to a rundown of exactly what to expect in this week's show, because as

usual, we have lots more than the title would suggest.

But first, right out of the gate here, I want to get to our drowning topic and address a bit

of controversy in the world of water safety.

A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog post for the 700 Children's Blog here at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

And in that post, I described a couple of terms that come up, seems every summer, dry drowning and secondary drowning. And that blog post made

its way around the internet. And I've been asked to comment on these conditions by various

reporters and websites over the past couple of years. Some of them did a better job of quoting

me than others. We'll leave it at that. And then here recently, and you've

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