🟢 HOT TOPICS 2025 COVERAGE - Should We Still Perform Pre-Discharge Car Seat Tests?
The Incubator Channel · 9 Dec 2025 · 12 min
Summary
Dr Michael Narvey, neonatologist, questions the evidence for pre-discharge car seat testing, explaining why Canada abandoned the test in 2016 and how autopsy data show rare car seat deaths arise from unsupervised asphyxiation rather than events in moving vehicles. He distinguishes dropping the test from maintaining car seat safety education on positioning and avoiding unsupervised use outside vehicles.
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