When infant car seats are properly positioned in the car, they can save hundreds, if not thousands of lives each year. But when they’re used improperly outside the car, these safety devices can lead to serious injury. When you place your infant in a car seat on a counter or table, or any high surface, you are putting your child at risk for a major fall. Infants can suffer from serious head injury, fractures or even asphyxiation. How should you properly use an infant car seat to prevent these injuries? Listen to Children’s on Quality and learn from the Nationwide Children’s Hospital experts about the safe use of infant car seats. “If it’s high, up it’s high risk.”

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Worldwide, over 300 million people suffer from asthma, and many of these are children. Sadly, their numbers are increasing. The consequences of pediatric asthma are significant. These include recurrent hospitalizations, poor quality of life and even death. Proven therapies for managing pediatric asthma exist. Yet, recent reports suggest that these therapies are not widely used. Why is this? How is pediatric asthma different from the chronic inflammatory airway disease seen in adults? What should a parent know about their child’s asthma therapy? In this edition of “Children’s on Quality,” I pose these and other questions to Shahid Sheikh, MD, pediatric pulmonologist and asthma expert at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

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