Review of the efforts of the Japanese Society of Echocardiography for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) during the ini
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REVIEW ARTICLE
Review of the efforts of the Japanese Society of Echocardiography for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19) during the initial outbreak in Japan Yoshihiro Seo1 · Masao Daimon2 · Hirotsugu Yamada3 · Nobuyuki Kagiyama4,5 · Mitsuhiko Ohta6 · Chisato Izumi7 · Kazuhiro Yamamoto8 · Satoshi Nakatani9 · the member of the joint committee of the Education Committee, Public Relations Committee, Guidelines Committee of the Japanese Society of Echocardiography Received: 19 August 2020 / Revised: 19 August 2020 / Accepted: 25 August 2020 © Japanese Society of Echocardiography 2020
Abstract Under the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the Japanese Society of Echocardiography (JSE) has been working to protect medical staff involved in echocardiographic examinations and to prevent secondary infections caused by the examinations since mid-March 2020. This review aims to describe the footprint of the JSE’s responses, focusing on the 3 months in which the initial outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic occurred in Japan. We summarized the six parts as follows: (1) the initial actions for COVID-19 of JSE, (2) JSE’s actions for infection control-associated echocardiographic examinations, (3) statements from the American Society of Echocardiography during the COVID-19 pandemic and their Japanese translation by JSE, (4) making videos for explaining the practice of echocardiography during the COVID-19 pandemic, (5) attempts with the JSE members’ opinions by the communication platform and surveys, and (6) efforts of final statement during the initial spread of COVID-19. We look forward that this review will help daily practices associated with echocardiography under the COVID-19 pandemic and in the future event of an unknown infectious disease pandemic. Keywords COVID-19 · Pandemic · Echocardiography · Japanese society of echocardiography
Introduction Yoshihiro Seo, Masao Daimon, Hirotsugu Yamada, Nobuyuki Kagiyama have equally contributed to this review article. Members of the joint committee of the Education Committee, Public Relations Committee, Guidelines Committee of the Japanese Society of Echocardiography are listed in the Acknowledgement section. * Yoshihiro Seo yo‑[email protected]‑cu.ac.jp 1
Under the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the Japanese Society of Echocardiography (JSE) has been working to protect medical staff involved in echocardiographic examinations and to prevent secondary infections caused by the examinations since mid-March 2020. This review aims to describe the footprint of the JSE’s responses, 5
Department of Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
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Cardiovascular Center, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan
Department of Cardiology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 1 Kawasumi, Mizuho‑cho, Mizuho‑ku, Nagoya 467‑8601, Japan
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Department of Clinical Laboratory, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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