RSV: What parents need to know about the surge of this airway infection
20-Minute Health Talk
English - November 17, 2022 19:42 - 20 minutes - 47.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Typically, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) sends thousands of children to the hospital over fall and winter, peaking in January and February. But for the second year in a row cases have spiked early and continue to grow. This has led to unprecedented cases of the common respiratory virus across the U.S. On this episode, Cohen Children's Medical Center leaders Joshua Rocker, MD, and Margaret Duffy, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, discuss what they are seeing on the front lines in New York, the impact flu will have leading into the winter months, and how hospitals are responding to the need. They explain what parents need to know about RSV, and what steps they can take to reduce transmission within the home, particularly for those with children under the age of 1, who are at the greatest risk.
Meet our guests
Dr. Joshua Rocker is the chief of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Division at Cohen Children's Medical Center
Margaret Duffy is associate executive director for Patient Care Services and chief nursing officer at Cohen Children’s Medical Center.
Chapters:
00:01 - Intro
01:31 - Why are we seeing an RSV surge now?
03:27 - What is RSV?
05:04 - RSV symptoms
05:56 - How is RSV transmitted?
09:58 - Diagnosing RSV
11:52 - A view from the frontlines
13:23 - The RSV surge in context
16:15 - Flu, Covid-19 and RSV
16:51 - Can you prevent RSV?
17:53 - Coping with RSV