Top

Published in:

01-09-2020 | Coronavirus | Editorial

Adapting to a new normal? 5 key operational principles for a radiology service facing the COVID-19 pandemic

Authors: Robert Chun Chen, Thuan Tong Tan, Lai Peng Chan

Published in: European Radiology | Issue 9/2020

Key Points

• Radiology services encountering the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic will need to modify their daily operational practices.

• Leadership, patient risk stratification, adequate manpower, operational workflow clarity, and workplace/social responsibility will help Radiology services safely and sustainably deal with the current disease outbreak.

Ministry of Health Singapore (2020) Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Available via https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/confirmed-imported-case-of-novel-coronavirus-infection-in-singapore-multi-ministry-taskforce-ramps-up-precautionary-measures. Accessed 9 Mar 2020

Straits Times Singapore (2020) Coronavirus. Available via https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/coronavirus-4-more-confirmed-cases-in-singapore-28-cases-so-far. Accessed 9 Mar 2020

Centers for Disease control and Prevention (2020) Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Available via https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/transmission.html. Accessed 26 Mar 2020

Da Zhuang K, Tan BS, Tan BH, Too CW, Tay KH (2020) Old threat, new enemy: is your interventional radiology service ready for the coronavirus disease 2019? Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-020-02440-6

Cheng LTE, Chan LP, Tan BH et al (2020) Déjà vu or Jamais vu? How the severe acute respiratory syndrome experience influenced a Singapore Radiology Department’s response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. AJR Am J Roentgenol. https://doi.org/10.2214/AJR.20.22927

Ai T, Yang ZL, Hou HY et al (2020) Correlation of chest CT and RT-PCR testing in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China: a report of 1014 cases. Radiology. https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2020200642

Pan Y, Guan H, Zhou S et al (2020) Initial CT findings and temporal changes in patients with the novel coronavirus pneumonia (2019-nCov): a study of 63 patients in Wuhan, China. Eur Radiol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-020-06731-x

Gogna A, Tay KH, Tan BS (2014) Severe acute respiratory syndrome: 11 years later—a radiology perspective. AJR Am J Roentgenol 203:746–748CrossRef

Markel H, Lipman HB, Navarro JA et al (2007) Nonpharmaceutical interventions implemented by US cities during the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic. JAMA 6:644–654CrossRef

10.

Huang C, Wang Y, Li X et al (2020) Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China. Lancet. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30183-5

Title: Adapting to a new normal? 5 key operational principles for a radiology service facing the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Robert Chun Chen
Thuan Tong Tan
Lai Peng Chan
Publication date: 01-09-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: Coronavirus
COVID-19
Published in: European Radiology / Issue 9/2020
Print ISSN: 0938-7994
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1084
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-020-06862-1

Keynote webinar | Spotlight on medication adherence

Springer Medicine

Adapting to a new normal? 5 key operational principles for a radiology service facing the COVID-19 pandemic

Key Points

Keynote webinar | Spotlight on medication adherence

Springer Medicine

Key Points

Please log in to get access to this content

Other articles of this Issue 9/2020

Strategically acquired gradient echo (STAGE)-derived MR angiography might be a superior alternative method to time-of-flight MR angiography in visualization of leptomeningeal collaterals

Benefits of 18F-FDG PET/CT for the preoperative characterisation or staging of disease in the ampullary and duodenal papillary

Effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on breast tissue composition: a longitudinal mammographic study with automated volumetric measurement

Histographic analysis of oedema and fat in inflamed bone marrow based on quantitative MRI

Radiation exposure per thrombectomy attempt in modern endovascular stroke treatment in the anterior circulation

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) imaging reporting and data system (COVID-RADS) and common lexicon: a proposal based on the imaging data of 37 studies