113 - The Recovery Process of ICU COVID-19 Patients

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medicine, News, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Patients who have spent time in the ICU because of COVID-19 face a long recovery. Comprehensive rehabilitation that starts early and continues after release can make all the difference in getting patients back to day-to-day activities. Johns Hopkins physiatrist Dr. April Pruski talks with Stephanie Desmon about the team of physical, occupational, and speech therapists, psychologists and more performing early interventions with COVID-19 patients and what recovery looks like after the ICU.

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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.hu.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:42.4	Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Dr. April Pruski, whose job it is to help COVID-19 patients
0:48.8	move out of the intensive care unit and into their homes as quickly as possible.
0:53.5	They discuss unique approaches to rehabilitation
0:57.0	being used with these patients and some of the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on the body. Let's listen.
1:04.0	Dr. April Prusky, thank you so much for joining me.
1:07.0	Hi. Thank you for having me.
1:09.0	So you are a physiatrist. So let's start with the question we might
1:14.0	all have is what is a physiatrist? So a physiatrist is a special type of medical doctor that
1:20.9	underwent training in physical medicine and rehabilitation. We treat patients of all ages, and we really focus on function. So what a
1:31.5	physiatrist does is they can determine and lead a treatment plan or a prevention plan to treat
1:38.2	the whole person rather than just one specific area. We usually work with a comprehensive interdisciplinary team.
1:46.3	We work with physical therapists, occupational therapist, speech therapist, psychologist,
1:51.7	all for the goal of helping a patient's recovery to get them back to the things that they enjoy.
1:56.6	And a lot of your work is in the ICU and you're seeing a lot of COVID patients.
2:01.9	Tell me about that recovery process.
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