Why Do We Use Car Seats?

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Guidance to Keep Newborn Babies Safe and Healthy

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University of Colorado System

Guidance to Keep Newborn Babies Safe and Healthy

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Курс 3 из 5 — Specialization Newborn Baby Care

In your previous 2 courses, you learned some medical interventions and skills to keep newborns healthy in the days and weeks after they have been born.  In this course, you will learn some key things that parents will need to do to keep their babies safe and healthy. The Guidance to Keep Newborn Babies Safe and Healthy Course will teach you best practices for how your baby will spend most of their day: eating, sleeping, and sometimes crying. Parents need to understand how to optimize nutrition, how to create a safe and happy sleep environment, how to safely transport their baby in their car, and how to respond to their baby’s crying. A newborn baby is an amazing beautiful life filled with hope.  There is so much that goes into making sure that babies are born healthy, and so much more to think about after they are born.  Whether you are in the health care field, or even a parent, this course is the perfect educational opportunity for you to keep newborn babies healthy in the days and weeks after they are born!

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CAR SEAT SAFETY

In this module, we will learn about child passenger safety for infants and young children. This module will cover basic child passenger safety information and provide some tips to educate caregivers on the correct use of car seats, best practice recommendations, and where to find resources in their community to support transporting a child safely.

Why Do We Use Car Seats?3:46

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Christine Gold
MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Director UCH Well Newborn Unit
Pediatrics
Mary Kohn, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Daniel Nicklas
Assistant Professor, Director of Primary Care Education for the Pediatrics Residency, Co-medical Director for the Pediatric Call Center
Department of Pediatrics

Hello, and welcome to our unit on children's car seats.

My name is Adrienn and I'm a public health educator and

certified child passenger safety technician at Children's Hospital Colorado.

Car crashes can happen at anytime to anyone who is on or near the road.

Pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists, drivers,

persons using cars, even pets in cars are at risk when a crash occurs.

More than 32,000 people are killed and

two million are injured yearly due to motor vehicle crashes.

Many of these deaths can be prevented.

Let's talk about how we can help parents and caregivers to understand

the need for car seats for infants and how to use them correctly.

Children need extra protection while traveling in a vehicle to help

keep them safe and reduce the risk of injury and death.

Despite how well car seats protect children,

they are often used incorrectly,

which can make them less effective or even dangerous in the crash.

According to reports from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),

car seat, booster seat,

and seat belt misuse rates vary from 74 to 90 percent.

That's a lot of children that are traveling unsafely in vehicles.

When used correctly, car seats reduced the risk of fatal injury by

71 percent for infants and by 54 percent for toddlers.

In these videos, I will do my best to help you

understand how to use a car seat correctly.

Let's start by looking at what is called crash dynamics.

Let's take a few minutes to understand what happens in a crash.

The science behind crashed forces show that an object in motion continues

in motion at the original speed until it connects with an outside force.

There are three stages that happen during a car crash.

The first stage is when the vehicle hits something and comes to an abrupt stop.

The second stage happens when the person in the vehicle at the original speed,

moves towards that point of impact.

The third stage happens after the person comes to a complete stop.

At this point, the internal organs are still moving forward until they hit something.

This third stage or internal crash often results

in serious injury and even death in some cases.

Think about a person inside a car,

how they continue moving at the speed of that car until

it's stopped by something else or an outside force.

That outside force can be something harmful such as a steering wheel,

a windshield, the pavement or even another person in the car.

Interestingly enough, it can also be an object that

is designed to protect you during an accident such as a seat belt,

an airbag, or even the car seat.

When safety features are not used correctly or not used at all,

the chances of sustaining serious injuries or deaths increases substantially.

So, if a person is in a car traveling at 40 miles an hour,

their body continues to travel up that rate of

speed until it's stopped by one of these things.

So, you can probably see from this information that

cross forces are severe and this is why they can be deadly.

The human body is simply not designed to travel at 40 miles per

hour and hit another object without sustaining serious injuries.

The safety features built into modern motor vehicles were designed to

reduce the risk of death and serious injury for older children and adults.

They were not designed to protect infants and young children

in the way that modern car seats are now designed to do.

When used correctly, car seats work to keep the child

passenger in the car and to prevent ejection,

being thrown from the car, in an accident.

For rear-facing seats, crash forces are distributed throughout the shell of

the car seat and over the entire body of the child putting less strain on their head,

on their neck, and on their back.

For forward facing seats designed for larger and older children,

crash forces are distributed throughout that harness system,

which is positioned over the child's shoulders and their pelvis.

You can watch this video to see how crashed forces are

distributed to protect the child and the child seat during crashed.

Next, we will look more closely to see how these safety features work in a crash,

from this conversation about crash forces and the video where you can actually see them.

In the next lesson, we will look how

safety features are designed to protect children during a crash.

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