422 - Rehabilitation and Care for People With Long-COVID, or PASC (Post-Acute Sequela of COVID)
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Some COVID patients continue to suffer from symptoms long after the initial infection clears. The formal name for "long COVID" is Post-Acute Sequela of COVID, or PASC. It's a condition that benefits from a comprehensive approach. Dr. Jonathan Whiteson of NYU's Post-COVID Care Program talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about how the field of physiatry is well positioned to work with PASC patients, what they've learned about treating symptoms like fatigue and brain fog, and the future agenda for research.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 0:21.7 | Our goal with this podcast is to bring scientific evidence and experience to shed light on critical |
| 0:27.5 | health issues. If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health |
| 0:33.0 | question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:42.3 | Today we're talking about long COVID. I speak to Dr. Jonathan Whiteson, a physiatrist at |
| 0:48.3 | New York University, about emerging evidence on how best to treat patients with this debilitating condition. |
| 0:56.5 | Let's listen. Dr. Jonathan Whiteson, thank you so much for joining me on public health on |
| 1:01.7 | call to talk about long COVID. Now, you are a physiatrist at New York University, is that right? |
| 1:08.3 | Yes, I'm a physiologist at NYU Langone Health, part of Rusk |
| 1:12.2 | rehabilitation, correct? Great. And I want to just start by asking some basic questions about your |
| 1:17.8 | own experience. Maybe just starting with what is a physiatrist, because a lot of people may not |
| 1:22.6 | be familiar with that branch of medicine. So a physiiatrist is a physician who's trained in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation. |
| 1:30.3 | And we're the ideal physicians to evaluate people from a holistic perspective when it comes to |
| 1:37.3 | their functioning, both physical and cognitive functioning. |
| 1:43.3 | And we're sort of the ideal physician to really understand how someone's medical condition, |
| 1:50.8 | whether it be heart disease, lung disease, neurologic disease, and operation, |
| 1:55.4 | is impacting their ability to fulfill their role in society. |
| 1:59.5 | So we evaluate patients from the medical perspective, |
| 2:02.5 | the strength, physical, functional perspective, and we coordinate a multi-special team to help |
| 2:09.4 | restore patients back to their optimum physical, functional health. And so when there's not a pandemic, |
| 2:16.1 | what would be a typical patient burn of physiatrics? |
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