Guidance and best practices for reestablishment of non-emergent care in nuclear cardiology laboratories during the coron

  • PDF / 218,094 Bytes
  • 8 Pages / 593.972 x 792 pts Page_size
  • 66 Downloads / 142 Views

DOWNLOAD

REPORT


b

c d

e f g h

i

j k l m

n o p

Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Frankel Cardiovascular Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging Section, Division of Human Health, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria Atrius Health, Somerville, MA National Heart Centre, Singapore, Singapore Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX Departments of Nuclear Medicine and Cardiovascular Imaging, Diagnostico Maipu, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Instituto Argentino de Diagnostico y Tratamiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Canada OhioHealth Heart and Vascular Physicians, Columbus, OH Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, Pisa, Italy Department of Radiology, Duke University Health System, Durham, NC Division of Cardiology, Heart and Vascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-020-02203-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. This article is being jointly published in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (https://doi.org/10.2967/jnumed.120.251355) and the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-02002203-3).

Reprint requests: Randall C. Thompson, St. Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, 4330 Wornall Rd, Suite 2000, Kansas City, MO 64111; [email protected] J Nucl Cardiol 1071-3581/$34.00 Copyright  2020 Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology.

Skali et al Guidance and best practices for reestablishment of non-emergent care in nuclear cardiology q

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Department of Medicine, Cardiology Division, and Department of Radiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY

Received May 14, 2020; accepted May 14, 2020 doi:10.1007/s12350-020-02203-3

INTRODUCTION The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting healthcare systems and resources around the world in an unprecedented manner. Based on recommendations from the numerous medical specialty societies and governmental agencies such as the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention1 and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services2, non-urgent procedures and tests were either canceled or postponed during the buildup to and decline from the pandemic’s peak. The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (A