Breaking Down the Opioid Commission Recommendations

Breaking Down the Opioid Commission Recommendations

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 676 , Segment 1

Episode: Opioid Crisis, Temple Grandin, Family Access to ICU

  • Nov 7, 2017
  • 22:30 mins

Guest: JoAnn Petrie, PhD, Addiction Specialist and Research Associate, Brain Imaging and Behavior Lab, Brigham Young University President Trump has declared the opioid overdose crisis a public health emergency. We now have a checklist to gauge how serious he is about addressing the crisis. The President’s Opioid Commission released its final report late last week with more than 50 recommendations.

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ICU Visiting Hour Restrictions Hurt More Than They Help

17m

Guest: Giora Netzer, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Public Health, University of Maryland A few years ago, Julie Rose was racing to the hospital to visit her father who was gravely ill in the Intensive Care Unit. But on the way, she got a call from a sibling that visiting hours had just ended for the day. She’d missed the window. And, as it turned out, she’d missed the chance to see her father conscious for the last time. He passed the next day. There’s a nationwide movement to loosen visitor restrictions in critical care hospital settings. Advocates for giving a patient’s family open access to the ICU say it improves things for both the patient and the family. Not all intensive care nurses or hospital administrators agree, however.

Guest: Giora Netzer, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Public Health, University of Maryland A few years ago, Julie Rose was racing to the hospital to visit her father who was gravely ill in the Intensive Care Unit. But on the way, she got a call from a sibling that visiting hours had just ended for the day. She’d missed the window. And, as it turned out, she’d missed the chance to see her father conscious for the last time. He passed the next day. There’s a nationwide movement to loosen visitor restrictions in critical care hospital settings. Advocates for giving a patient’s family open access to the ICU say it improves things for both the patient and the family. Not all intensive care nurses or hospital administrators agree, however.