COVID-19 Related Mortality During Management of a Hepatic Abscess

Robert Elliott; Nana Ohene Baah; Valerie Aarne Grossman; Ashwani Kumar Sharma

doi:10.1016/j.jradnu.2020.09.001

COVID-19 Related Mortality During Management of a Hepatic Abscess

J Radiol Nurs. 2020 Dec;39(4):271-274. doi: 10.1016/j.jradnu.2020.09.001. Epub 2020 Sep 22.

Authors

Robert Elliott¹, Nana Ohene Baah², Valerie Aarne Grossman³, Ashwani Kumar Sharma¹

Affiliations

¹ Imaging Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.
² Department of Radiology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.
³ Medical Imaging, Highland Hospital, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.

Abstract

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which originated in the capital city of the Hubei Province, Wuhan, China, in late 2019. Declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11th, 2020, COVID-19 has challenged healthcare systems to limit the spread of community and hospital-acquired disease. This article uses a patient case to highlight the importance of infection control during the height of the SARS-CoV-2 surge at a Level I affiliated community hospital in Western New York.

Keywords: Community and hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2; Coronavirus pandemic; Covid-19; Disease transmission.

Publication types

Case Reports