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It's my pleasure to introduce Heather Carey, a pediatric emergency physician who's practiced in multiple countries and is now at the hospital for sick children in Toronto doing a PEDs

trauma fellowship.

Now, as part of our best of the University of Toronto EM series, she's going to talk about pediatric trauma.

Now there's quite a bit of practice variation across the world when it comes to the use of

abdominal pocus and when it comes to the use of C-spine immobilization. So we're going to do two

quick hits with Dr. Carey. First, we're going to talk about abdominal pocus and it really is

quite amazing how different people practice across the world. We're going to talk about abdominal pocus, and it really is quite amazing how different people

practice across the world.

We're going to look at the evidence and then hopefully come to some conclusions about how best

to utilize or not utilize pocus in abdominal trauma.

Take it away, Dr. Carey.

Thanks, Million, Anton.

I found that working on either side of the Atlantic has given me a great opportunity to see

how much of medicine is actually dogma that we don't even think to question.

There are a ton of examples of this, but today I'm going to speak about two specific examples

in the context of pediatric trauma care.

First is the use of fast, and the second is methods of spinal motion restriction.

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