Divide and Conquer: Strategies in Singapore to Manage a Nuclear Medicine Department During COVID-19

The COVID-19 outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization on January 30, 2020. Since then, the virus has spread to affect more countries worldwide. During this period, our nuclear medicine department at Singapore General Hospital segregate...

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Autores principales: Tham, Wei Y., Tong, Aaron K.T., Loke, Kelvin S.H., Chio, Liyi, Lim, Gabriel K.Y., Seah, Xin Y., Ng, David C.E., Yan, Sean X.X., Lam, Winnie W.C.
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Publicado: Society of Nuclear Medicine 2020
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Covid Commentaries
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8679583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32358044
http://dx.doi.org/10.2967/jnmt.120.244855
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Lam, Winnie W.C.
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description The COVID-19 outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization on January 30, 2020. Since then, the virus has spread to affect more countries worldwide. During this period, our nuclear medicine department at Singapore General Hospital segregated our staff and patients by time, by space, or both, to minimize contact and prevent spread of the virus. Necessary changes to our clinical practices and stricter infection control measures were also enforced. We share our personal experience in managing a nuclear medicine department during this epidemic.
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spelling pubmed-86795832022-01-05 Divide and Conquer: Strategies in Singapore to Manage a Nuclear Medicine Department During COVID-19 Tham, Wei Y. Tong, Aaron K.T. Loke, Kelvin S.H. Chio, Liyi Lim, Gabriel K.Y. Seah, Xin Y. Ng, David C.E. Yan, Sean X.X. Lam, Winnie W.C. J Nucl Med Technol Covid Commentaries The COVID-19 outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization on January 30, 2020. Since then, the virus has spread to affect more countries worldwide. During this period, our nuclear medicine department at Singapore General Hospital segregated our staff and patients by time, by space, or both, to minimize contact and prevent spread of the virus. Necessary changes to our clinical practices and stricter infection control measures were also enforced. We share our personal experience in managing a nuclear medicine department during this epidemic. Society of Nuclear Medicine 2020-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8679583/ /pubmed/32358044 http://dx.doi.org/10.2967/jnmt.120.244855 Text en © 2020 by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Immediate Open Access: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY) allows users to share and adapt with attribution, excluding materials credited to previous publications. License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Details: http://jnm.snmjournals.org/site/misc/permission.xhtml.
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Tham, Wei Y.
Tong, Aaron K.T.
Loke, Kelvin S.H.
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Lim, Gabriel K.Y.
Seah, Xin Y.
Ng, David C.E.
Yan, Sean X.X.
Lam, Winnie W.C.
Divide and Conquer: Strategies in Singapore to Manage a Nuclear Medicine Department During COVID-19
title Divide and Conquer: Strategies in Singapore to Manage a Nuclear Medicine Department During COVID-19
title_full Divide and Conquer: Strategies in Singapore to Manage a Nuclear Medicine Department During COVID-19
title_fullStr Divide and Conquer: Strategies in Singapore to Manage a Nuclear Medicine Department During COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Divide and Conquer: Strategies in Singapore to Manage a Nuclear Medicine Department During COVID-19
title_short Divide and Conquer: Strategies in Singapore to Manage a Nuclear Medicine Department During COVID-19
title_sort divide and conquer: strategies in singapore to manage a nuclear medicine department during covid-19
topic Covid Commentaries
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8679583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32358044
http://dx.doi.org/10.2967/jnmt.120.244855
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