Is Your Interventional Radiology Service Ready for SARS?: The Singapore Experience

The recent epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome caught many by surprise. Hitherto, infection control has not been in the forefront of radiological practice. Many interventional radiology (IR) services are therefore not equipped to deal with such a disease. In this review, we share our exper...

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Autores principales: Lau, Te-Neng, Teo, Ngee, Tay, Kiang-Hiong, Chan, Ling-Ling, Wong, Daniel, EH Lim, Winston, Tan, Bien-Soo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7079951/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14753298
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00270-003-0143-5
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description The recent epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome caught many by surprise. Hitherto, infection control has not been in the forefront of radiological practice. Many interventional radiology (IR) services are therefore not equipped to deal with such a disease. In this review, we share our experience from the interventional radiologist’s perspective, report on the acute measures instituted within our departments and explore the long-term effects of such a disease on the practice of IR.
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spelling pubmed-70799512020-03-23 Is Your Interventional Radiology Service Ready for SARS?: The Singapore Experience Lau, Te-Neng Teo, Ngee Tay, Kiang-Hiong Chan, Ling-Ling Wong, Daniel EH Lim, Winston Tan, Bien-Soo Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol Article The recent epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome caught many by surprise. Hitherto, infection control has not been in the forefront of radiological practice. Many interventional radiology (IR) services are therefore not equipped to deal with such a disease. In this review, we share our experience from the interventional radiologist’s perspective, report on the acute measures instituted within our departments and explore the long-term effects of such a disease on the practice of IR. Springer-Verlag 2003-10-13 2003 /pmc/articles/PMC7079951/ /pubmed/14753298 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00270-003-0143-5 Text en © Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 2003 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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