080 - One Surgeon's Pivot from Elective Surgeries to COVID-19 ICU Care

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medicine, News, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Johns Hopkins Hospital paused elective surgeries (surgeries that are scheduled ahead of time) in March. Like some of his other colleagues, Dr. Rick Redett volunteered to be redeployed to the COVID ICU. Redett talks to Stephanie Desmon about exhausting shifts, the challenges of shifting from surgery to supportive care, and how things may be different as surgeries resume.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a new podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:12.7	Our focus is the novel coronavirus.
0:15.2	I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and also a former secretary of Maryland's health department.
0:21.6	Our goal with this podcast is to bring evidence and experts to help you understand today's
0:26.9	news about the novel coronavirus and what it means for tomorrow.
0:30.5	If you have questions, you can email them to public health question at jhh.edu.
0:36.3	That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:42.9	Today, Stephanie Desmond speaks to Dr. Rick Redett, a pediatric plastic surgeon at Johns Hopkins.
0:49.9	When the governor of Maryland ordered the end of elective surgery two months ago,
0:54.3	Dr. Redet volunteered to work in the adult intensive care unit for COVID-19 patients.
0:59.9	He talks to Stephanie about the experience.
1:02.8	Let's listen.
1:03.8	Thanks so much for joining me.
1:05.8	Thank you for having me.
1:07.2	So Rick, tell me a little bit about what your day job is at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
1:12.2	Well, my day job's a little different now that it used to be. But prior to the pandemic,
1:17.4	I was and I still am a pediatric plastic surgeon. What that means is I take care of kids with
1:25.0	facial differences from cleft lip and palate to other cranny facial anomalies. I take care of kids with facial differences from cleft lip and palate to other cranny facial
1:29.5	anomalies.
1:30.2	I take care of pediatric burn patients, and I take care of kids with pediatric hand problems.
1:36.0	I'm also the interim director of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at
1:40.3	Johns Hopkins.
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