📹 Join Drs Forest Arnold and Victoria Statler as they discuss RSV after the COVID pandemic. Tune in to hear about an increase in hospitalization rates, surprising seasonal shifts, and more. MedTwitter
Forest W. Arnold, DO, MSc:series on respiratory syncytial virus in adults. Today we'll be discussing from the perspective where most of us have our landmark knowledge, which is in infants, to build a base as we discuss RSV in adults in future episodes.
I ask you, Dr Statler, what is your approach to this patient and what happens next in the workup of this infant?This infant's presentation is very typical of many infants and young children coming to our ER in the fall and winter of most years. It seems like this child has started with anthat sounds like it has probably gone into the lower respiratory tract, since you have wheezing on exam.
This year, we saw RSV really start to tick up in August and September and peak in November. It came in with a vengeance this year. We saw a lot of patients in a very short time period and had a much higher hospitalization rate this season than we have in the past. It's interesting because the COVID 19 pandemic disrupted the circulation of RSV and other common respiratory viruses.
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