Long COVID podcast series
Going Viral Podcast
Going Viral Podcast: Long COVID – A personal experience
In this episode:
- Listen to Kylie’s extensive journey of recovery from Long COVID, including her debilitating symptoms and emotional turmoil
- Explore the critical role her General Practitioner and Long COVID clinic played in her recovery
- Understand the importance of empathy, patient support and multidisciplinary care in recovery
- Important insights into how to manage Long COVID patients, highlighting the need for understanding, patience and tailored treatment plans
Experts: Kylie Trounson, Senior Associate
A/Prof John Litt AM, General Practitioner
Host: Dr David Lim, GP and Medical Educator
Going Viral Podcast: Long COVID Part 1 (feat. Prof Steven Faux AM)
In this episode:
- Understand the definition, incidence and the symptoms of long COVID
- Cluster symptoms to help you understand the different presentations from the patient
- What risk factors predispose patients to long COVID
- What investigations as a GP may help you diagnose long COVID
- Rehabilitation of the patient is key, and it’s essential to develop tailored plans while ensuring appropriate referral pathways are in place when needed.
- How healthcare professions can assist patients to discuss with employers their rehabilitation plan and return to work
Host: Dr David Lim, GP and Medical Educator
Expert: Prof Steven Faux AM, Rehabilitation and Pain Physician
Going Viral Podcast: Long COVID Part 2 (feat. Prof Steven Faux AM and A/Prof John Litt AM)
In this episode:
- Natural history of Long COVID, although up to 95% patients will improve their symptoms; it is a long process
- Role of vaccination in prevention of Long COVID in patients at higher risk
- Role of Metformin in prevention of symptoms of Long COVID and how it is best used in clinics
- Type of rehabilitation patients with Long COVID need
- Impact on interpersonal relationships and the role of family and community
- General practitioners and allied health can together make a significant improvement to patient outcomes
Expert: Prof Steven Faux AM, Rehabilitation and Pain Physician
A/Prof John Litt AM, GP and Public Health Physician
Host: Dr David Lim, GP and Medical Educator
Going Viral Podcast: Current research on risk factors, pathophysiology, and emerging treatments (feat. Prof Brendan Crabb AC and A/Prof John Litt)
In this episode:
- Why Long COVID is a large and growing concern as new insights emerge at great speed
- Understand the proposed mechanisms driving Long COVID, including the two main mechanisms of persistent infection and the role of toxic fibrin induced vascular damage
- How to clinically assess Long COVID in patients
- Role of antivirals in reducing the duration, severity and potentially preventing the impact of Long COVID
- Three hierarchical drivers of preventing the impact of Long COVID, how can this messaging help your patient
- What should be your tool kit of prevention, when explaining Long COVID to your patients, especially the vulnerable ones
- Risk of long lasting viraemia in the body causing future chronic conditions
- Use of CoRiCal, a COVID calculator (including Long COVID); beneficial as a tool in your practice
Host: Dr David Lim | Total Time: 54 mins
Experts:
Prof Brendan Crabb, Infectious Disease Researcher
A/Prof John Litt AM, Public Health Physician
