How the COVID-19 pandemic changed cellular therapy at Columbia University Irving Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

Autor: Tanhehco, Yvette C., Schwartz, Joseph
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Zdroj: Transfusion; Sep2020, Vol. 60 Issue 9, p1905-1909, 5p
Abstrakt: New York is at the epicenter of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Columbia University Irving Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (CUIMC/NYPH) had to make changes to its cellular therapy operations to ensure patient, donor, and staff safety and well-being. In this article, we discuss the process changes we instituted for cellular therapy clinical care, collection, processing, and cryopreservation to cope with the rapidly evolving pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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