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Chest Radiographs and CTs in the Era of COVID-19: Indications, Operational Safety Considerations and Alternative Imaging Practices

Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is a pathogen that has shown an ability for sustained community transmission. To ensure utmost safety, radiology services will need to adapt to this disease in the coming months and possibly years ahead. This will include learning how to perform radiographs and CT i...

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Autores principales: Chia, Audrey Qi Xin, Cheng, Lionel Tim-Ee, Wijaya, Limin, Png, Meng Ai, Sim, Wei Yow, Hong, Wei Liang, Chen, Robert Chun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Association of University Radiologists. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7341971/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32703648
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acra.2020.06.022
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author Chia, Audrey Qi Xin
Cheng, Lionel Tim-Ee
Wijaya, Limin
Png, Meng Ai
Sim, Wei Yow
Hong, Wei Liang
Chen, Robert Chun
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description Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is a pathogen that has shown an ability for sustained community transmission. To ensure utmost safety, radiology services will need to adapt to this disease in the coming months and possibly years ahead. This will include learning how to perform radiographs and CT in a safe and sustainable manner. Due to the risk of nosocomial spread of disease, the judicious use and implementation of strict infection protocols is paramount to limit healthcare worker and patient transmission. Between 28 January 2020 and 8 June 2020, our institution performed 12,034 radiographs and 178 CT scans for suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients. As of 8 June 2020, there have been no documented instances of healthcare staff acquiring COVID-19 during the course of work. In this article, we present the indications and operational considerations used by our institution to safely image patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19. Alternative practices for imaging radiographs are also discussed.
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spelling pubmed-73419712020-07-08 Chest Radiographs and CTs in the Era of COVID-19: Indications, Operational Safety Considerations and Alternative Imaging Practices Chia, Audrey Qi Xin Cheng, Lionel Tim-Ee Wijaya, Limin Png, Meng Ai Sim, Wei Yow Hong, Wei Liang Chen, Robert Chun Acad Radiol Article Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is a pathogen that has shown an ability for sustained community transmission. To ensure utmost safety, radiology services will need to adapt to this disease in the coming months and possibly years ahead. This will include learning how to perform radiographs and CT in a safe and sustainable manner. Due to the risk of nosocomial spread of disease, the judicious use and implementation of strict infection protocols is paramount to limit healthcare worker and patient transmission. Between 28 January 2020 and 8 June 2020, our institution performed 12,034 radiographs and 178 CT scans for suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients. As of 8 June 2020, there have been no documented instances of healthcare staff acquiring COVID-19 during the course of work. In this article, we present the indications and operational considerations used by our institution to safely image patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19. Alternative practices for imaging radiographs are also discussed. The Association of University Radiologists. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020-09 2020-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7341971/ /pubmed/32703648 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acra.2020.06.022 Text en © 2020 The Association of University Radiologists. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Png, Meng Ai
Sim, Wei Yow
Hong, Wei Liang
Chen, Robert Chun
Chest Radiographs and CTs in the Era of COVID-19: Indications, Operational Safety Considerations and Alternative Imaging Practices
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title_fullStr Chest Radiographs and CTs in the Era of COVID-19: Indications, Operational Safety Considerations and Alternative Imaging Practices
title_full_unstemmed Chest Radiographs and CTs in the Era of COVID-19: Indications, Operational Safety Considerations and Alternative Imaging Practices
title_short Chest Radiographs and CTs in the Era of COVID-19: Indications, Operational Safety Considerations and Alternative Imaging Practices
title_sort chest radiographs and cts in the era of covid-19: indications, operational safety considerations and alternative imaging practices
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7341971/
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