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New protocol for imaging patients with Ebola
- Date:
- November 18, 2014
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- American Roentgen Ray Society
- Summary:
- A new protocol is facilitating safer portable computed radiography of patients with Ebola.
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In a breakthrough that could substantially improve physicians' ability to rapidly evaluate patients with suspected Ebola, physicians and nurses specializing in infectious diseases at Emory University Hospital have outlined a successful protocol for obtaining chest radiographs using portable computed radiography.
The protocol not only limits the exposure of personnel and equipment to body fluids, it also minimizes the risk of contaminants leaving the isolation unit by use of thorough decontamination procedures.
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Journal Reference:
- Srini Tridandapani et al. Radiographic Imaging for Patients With Contagious Infectious Diseases: How to Acquire Chest Radiographs of Patients Infected With the Ebola Virus Read More: http://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.14.14041. American Journal of Roentgenology, November 2014
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