This is PediCast.

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 is a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

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

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 552.

We're calling this one pediatric anesthesia.

I want to welcome all of you to the program.

So before we get into our topic today, I just have to say it is so cold outside here

in Ohio right now.

Well, you know, it actually, as I look at the temperature, I guess I would call 19 degrees

Fahrenheit balmy, only because it's been in the single digits for several days leading up to this one.

And so hopefully all of you are bundling up and staying warm, those of you who live in the northern latitudes of the United States.

And I've actually done several television interviews on keeping kids safe during the cold weather,

including one for the weather channel.

So maybe you'll see me on the weather channel.

And I have to say that, and people who know me well will understand that if I weren't a doctor,

I would have wanted to be a TV weatherman.

And I'm always following the weather, tracking storms, you know, if I could do the whole

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