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Management of a diagnostic radiology department amid Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SAR-CoV-2) is a highly contagious infectious disease and spreads through aerosols and fomites. Health care personnel who are at the forefront of the fight against coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic are also at greater risk of contracting the i...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7996678/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33814782 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijri.IJRI_320_20 |
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author | Parry, Arshed H Wani, Haseeb A Yaseen, Mudasira |
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description | Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SAR-CoV-2) is a highly contagious infectious disease and spreads through aerosols and fomites. Health care personnel who are at the forefront of the fight against coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic are also at greater risk of contracting the infection. Mixing of uninfected people with infected people is potentially hazardous, especially in a radiology department. Implementation of meticulous operational changes, curtailment of nonurgent radiological work, rationalization of staff, equipment disinfection, use of personal protection equipment, and psychological support are needed to combat COVID-19 or any such infectious disease outbreak. This technical note will familiarize radiology workers with infectious disease outbreak-response to be adopted to ensure the safety of staff and patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-79966782021-04-01 Management of a diagnostic radiology department amid Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic Parry, Arshed H Wani, Haseeb A Yaseen, Mudasira Indian J Radiol Imaging Technical Note Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SAR-CoV-2) is a highly contagious infectious disease and spreads through aerosols and fomites. Health care personnel who are at the forefront of the fight against coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic are also at greater risk of contracting the infection. Mixing of uninfected people with infected people is potentially hazardous, especially in a radiology department. Implementation of meticulous operational changes, curtailment of nonurgent radiological work, rationalization of staff, equipment disinfection, use of personal protection equipment, and psychological support are needed to combat COVID-19 or any such infectious disease outbreak. This technical note will familiarize radiology workers with infectious disease outbreak-response to be adopted to ensure the safety of staff and patients. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-01 2021-01-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7996678/ /pubmed/33814782 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijri.IJRI_320_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Technical Note Parry, Arshed H Wani, Haseeb A Yaseen, Mudasira Management of a diagnostic radiology department amid Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic |
title | Management of a diagnostic radiology department amid Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic |
title_full | Management of a diagnostic radiology department amid Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic |
title_fullStr | Management of a diagnostic radiology department amid Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Management of a diagnostic radiology department amid Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic |
title_short | Management of a diagnostic radiology department amid Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic |
title_sort | management of a diagnostic radiology department amid coronavirus disease-19 (covid-19) pandemic |
topic | Technical Note |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7996678/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33814782 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijri.IJRI_320_20 |
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