Alternative strategies for CT unit management during the COVID-19 pandemic: a single center experience
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2020
Yazarlar: Recep SAVAŞ
Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, SCI Expanded İndekslerine Giren Dergi, Uluslararası, Wos, 2020, cilt 27, ss 152-152
Özet
I read with great interest the article titled "Strategies for radiology departments in handling the COVID-19 pandemic'' by Muhammad Aminuddin Ashari et al. (1) published in Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology in April 2020.This article describes the policies and strategies for reducing the risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) transmission of employees and patients in the radiology departments.Due to the rapid completion of computed tomography (CT) and its high sensitivity in pneumonic changes, frequent CT examinations are conducted in many centers (2).This frequency of CT examinations requires more precautions to protect both CT staff and patients.Our hospital has a capacity of 2000 beds and serves as a quarantine hospital during the pandemic period.As in other departments in the hospital, we have taken a series of measures in the radiology department.The most important of these measures is related to the use of CT: from the three CT units in the hospital, the device in the emergency room is reserved only for patients suspected of COVID-19, with approximately 50 scans performed daily.Thus, the transportation of the patients to the CT unit is easy and short.Non-COVID emergencies and inpatients are examined with the other two CT devices.All CT technicians are divided into three groups.Each group works for a week and rests for the following two weeks.The aim here is to prevent the technicians infecting each other as well as to reduce the risk of getting infection from patients.Thus,