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RSV Explained: Risks, Symptoms, and Prevention

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00:00:00:00 - 00:00:24:05

Leslie Schlachter
Three things I would never do. As an infectious disease neonatologist. I.

Dr. Jennifer Duchon
Avoid the buffet in winter. Sorry. Yeah.

Leslie Schlachter
Is it possible to be a germaphobe? As an infectious disease doctor.

Dr. Sean Liu
I think germs is a derogatory term for bacteria.

00:00:24:07 - 00:00:52:19

Leslie Schlachter
Hi. Welcome to the vitals. The Mount Sinai Health System's newest video podcast. I'm your host, Leslie Schachter, a neurosurgery physician assistant here at the Mount Sinai Hospital. Today, we're talking about the viral lung infection RSV, respiratory syncytial virus. It's a common infection that affects the lungs, often in children. I'm so happy to have Doctor Sean Liu, associate professor of infectious disease, and Doctor Jennifer Duchon, an associate professor in newborn medicine in pediatric infectious disease.

00:00:52:23 - 00:01:09:00

Leslie Schlachter
So thank you guys so much for being here today. So you guys generally do the same thing infectious disease. But you focus on children and you focus on adults correct. Correct. Yep okay. Why don't you tell us a little bit before we get going about your practice? Like what is a typical day look like for you?

Dr. Jennifer Duchon
My day's a little bit odd.

00:01:09:02 - 00:01:40:21

Dr. Jennifer Duchon
I like to say that I sit on, many horses with one AZ. I'm also the pediatric hospital epidemiologist and director of Antimicrobial Stewardship. So I spend a significant portion of my day actually dealing with, the epidemiology of the hospital, making sure that, our patients are safe, that everyone's on contact isolation and that, so you're like a little person, I, I am I'm also the rule, a little bit of the rule enforcer.

00:01:40:23 - 00:02:02:11

Dr. Jennifer Duchon
So that occupies a big proportion of my day. When I do an ID service, I run with our fellows and we do our regular patient care. We do consults on the floor, consults in the Ed, and then sort of.