The Incubator
The Incubator
Ben Courchia & Daphna Yasova Barbeau
#386 - 🟢 HOT TOPICS 2025 COVERAGE - Should We Still Perform Pre-Discharge Car Seat Tests?
15 minutes Posted Dec 9, 2025 at 6:00 pm.
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Send us a text Dr. Michael Narvey, neonatologist and Vice President of Canadian Pediatric Society, challenges the validity of pre-discharge car seat testing. After leading Canadian work resulting in nationwide abandonment of the test in 2016, he argues the test doesn't represent real-world conditions (potholes, movement) and lacks evidence demonstrating it saves lives from apnea or desaturations. Based on 50 years of autopsy data, rare car seat-related deaths result from unsupervised asphyxia...