{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Dr. David Zorko: Ensuring Children Are Surviving and Thriving ","description":"For critically ill children, survival is just the beginning of their story and post-PICU (Pediatric Intensive Care Unit) care is the cornerstone of ensuring children thrive afterwards. Dr. David Zorko\u2019s research places a magnifying glass on post-PICU care, aiming to better understand this type of care, identify the types of children who are at higher risk, and generate evidence-based practices to better support children and their families. Dr. David Zorko\u2019s role as researcher also helps him become a stronger paediatric critical care physician, as his eye for the long-term effects impacts the decisions he makes in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit). For the first time on Healthcare Change Makers, our interviewee becomes the interviewer on a special second part of the episode! For the longest time, we\u2019ve wanted to give our guests an opportunity to spotlight key people in their network. Dr. David Zorko interviews two of his mentors, Dr. Genevi\u00e8ve Du Pont-Thibodeau and Dr. Karen Choong, who share a collective goal of researching post-PICU care. With their combined expertise, they explain why research about this type of care is critical and share advice for hospitals on improving post-PICU care. And it\u2019s a true indication of how healthcare is a team sport. Quotables: \u201cI\u2019m really passionate about improving outcomes for children and families who survive critical illness, and my research focuses on their long-term outcome.\u201d - DZ \u201cThe dyad of a child and their caregivers and family are inseparable and codependent so consequently family members can also experience adverse outcomes related to their children\u2019s critical illness. Then that can impact further upon the child.\u201d - DZ \u201cWhat interventions and practices can we implement to not just help children survive, but survive better.\u201d - DZ \u201cMy inspiration comes from the patients and their families. Some are surviving and thriving after their critical illness and some are not. And some have such serious chronic health problems that they require long ICU stays or repeated ICU admissions, and many of these survivors are becoming our future patients.\u201d - DZ \u201cThere are over 4,000 Tim Hortons stores in Canada and less than 20 PICUs in Canada. You can imagine everyone kind of knows everyone in the Pediatric Critical Care world in Canada, and if you want to get any type of large-scale research done, we all need to partner together.\u201d - DZ \u201cI like to use that Ted Lasso phrase, be curious not judgemental.\u201d - DZ \u201cIf you saw me in the ICU, what you\u2019ll hear me say to families when their child is critically ill is despite how scary this all is\u2026that doesn\u2019t change the fact that you are still their parents. All the mom and dad things apply. And if you want to do something that your child would like, don\u2019t let these things be barriers, let us make it happen.\u201d - DZ \u201cThere\u2019s consistent evidence that the top predictor for reducing many of these ICU consequences is family presence, so empowering and engaging them is fundamental.\u201d \u2013 DZ \u201cThere\u2019s been so much improvement in the way that we help kids survive critical care and critical disease, that now I think our priority has shifted in terms of making sure that not only they survive but they survive with a good quality of life.\u201d - GDT \u201cWe\u2019ve evolved the model and come to understand that critical illness is a continuum of care, and it doesn\u2019t just start in the ICU. In fact, it starts before the ICU and therefore should continue after the ICU.\u201d \u2013 KC Mentioned in this Episode: \u00b7       McMaster Children\u2019s Hospital \u00b7       McMaster University \u00b7       The Canadian Critical Care Trials Group \u00b7       Dr. Genevi\u00e8ve Du Pont-Thibodeau \u00b7       Dr. Karen Choong \u00b7       Ted Lasso TV Show \u00b7       The Pitt TV Show \u00b7       ER TV Show \u00b7       Noah Wyle \u00b7       Dr. Jacques Lacroix \u00b7       Dr. Margaret Herridge \u00b7       Dr. Deborah Cook Access More Interviews with Healthcare Leaders at HIROC.com\/podcast Follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram, and listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your favourite podcasts. Email us at Communications@HIROC.com. ","author_name":"Healthcare Change Makers","author_url":"http:\/\/www.hiroc.com","html":"