Lasting lessons learnt in the radiology department from the battle with COVID-19
| Autor: | R.J. Freeman, M.E. Callow, R.J. Wood, S.J. Bond, Jonathan C L Rodrigues, A.J. Phillips, G. Robinson, W.W. Loughborough, M.J. Laugharne, B.J. Hudson, D.J. Pressdee, R.J. Colliver, H.C. Oliver, Y. Hughes-Roberts |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
education.field_of_study Peacetime Battle business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Population Globe General Medicine Article medicine.anatomical_structure Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Pandemic medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Catchment area Radiology education business China media_common Pace |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Radiology |
| ISSN: | 1365-229X 0009-9260 |
| Popis: | A febrile respiratory tract illness of unknown origin developed in a cluster of patients in December 2019 in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. A novel strain of coronavirus (SARS-coronavirus-2 [SARS-CoV-2]) was identified in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of the patients.1 The pulmonary infection caused by SARS-CoV-2 was named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization (WHO). The virus spread quickly around the globe and was declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020. It hit China, Italy, and Iran hard and fast and, due to the nature of the emergency outstripping the supply of reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) swab testing, chest computed tomography (CT) was adopted widely in the diagnostic work-up and stratification in these countries. This heightened awareness in radiology departments elsewhere around the world and afforded them the luxury to prepare for an impending “war” with COVID-19. History reminds us that war leads to adaptation, innovation, and development at unprecedented pace. In this commentary, we describe our initial battle plans for the COVID-19 invasion in the ∼500,000 population of the catchment area of our district general hospital radiology department in the South West of England. No plan of operation extends with any certainty beyond the first hostile contact; we describe the challenges faced, and refinements made, during the first COVID-19 wave. We summarise how we effected change within the department and throughout the entire Trust. Finally, we reflect on some of the lessons that were learnt from “wartime” to reap long-lasting benefit in our radiology department when peacetime returns. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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