“How is nuclear medicine changing the pandemic?”
I am a 31 year old male. I want to know how is nuclear medicine changing the pandemic?
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NuclearMedicineSpecialistNuclearMedicineSpecialist
We have stopped doing some studies because of the pandemic. We are no longer doing studies which involve exercise or respiration testing. We are doing pharmacologic stress instead of exercise. We are no longer doing ventilation studies.
We do image Covid positive patients, but only at the end of the day as equipment needs to be decontaminated for 4 hours. We do not do outpatient procedures that are not urgent on patients that have tested positive for Covid within 2 weeks.
We do image Covid positive patients, but only at the end of the day as equipment needs to be decontaminated for 4 hours. We do not do outpatient procedures that are not urgent on patients that have tested positive for Covid within 2 weeks.