as a Peds ER doctor kids come in sick and injured
and we resuscitate and we try to get them better
but there’s an entire group of people that try to help
prevent kids from ever being in that situation to start with
CPSTs or child passenger safety technicians
it’s their job to educate families about appropriate restraint systems
they need to know about all the different car seats
they need to know what is an appropriate car seat for this child
and how these appropriately are installed into cars
I said it in my last video
being appropriately restrained in a car seat
tremendously impacts your ability to survive an accident
which means
that your car seat needs to be installed by the manufacturer’s guidelines
and if you’ve ever looked at your manufacturer’s guidelines
there’s there’s a lot going on there
and a lot of car seats are not installed correctly
and you don’t wanna be finding out at the time of an accident
that your car seat is not installed correctly
I highly recommend having a CPST look at your car seat situation
you got top tethers you got latches
you got manufacturers guidelines
you have weight restrictions
height restrictions look at your kid in the seat
make sure it’s correct because your kid’s life potentially depends on it
There’s gonna be a lot of people that are gonna say
go to your local fire department
and if you’re just going to check out the firefighters
you have my full blessing
but if you want them to look at your car seats
they need to be cpsts
if you happen to find someone who’s a CPST and it’s getting real hot in here
go ahead and drop the fire station
for educational purposes when it comes to car seats
please look to the experts
people who are CPSTs my two favourite accounts for this
Jamie Grayson and safe in the seat