Nuclear medicine in responding to global pandemic COVID-19-American College of Nuclear Medicine member experience

Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2020 Jul;47(7):1620-1622. doi: 10.1007/s00259-020-04799-7.

Abstract

In the global pandemic COVID-19, it is important for everyone including nuclear medicine personnel to know how to stop transmission and contain and prevent the spread of COVID-19. Here, we summarize our American College of Nuclear Medicine members' experiences from Wuhan, China; Singapore; and the USA, so to provide advice to the nuclear medicine personnel for their clinical practice and management strategies in responding to COVID-19.

Publication types

  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Betacoronavirus
  • COVID-19
  • China
  • Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
  • Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control
  • Equipment and Supplies / standards
  • Humans
  • Nuclear Medicine / methods
  • Pandemics / prevention & control
  • Patient Safety / standards
  • Personnel, Hospital
  • Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control
  • Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography / standards*
  • Radiology Department, Hospital / standards
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Singapore
  • United States