id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-278467-c0jw9dkw Tulchinsky, Mark The American College of Nuclear Medicine Guidance on Operating Procedures for a Nuclear Medicine Facility During COVID-19 Pandemic 2020-05-01 .txt text/plain 2101 147 45 During the COVID-19 pandemic, 5 scheduling of examinations should be judicious, equipment disinfection should be practiced before each patient, medical service sustainability should be optimized, all aerosol-generating tests must be avoided, and time of staff-patient contact should be minimized for each test in order to contain the contagion. 3. Provide to the patient and/or guardian as much information as possible by phone in advance of arrival to an NMF, including screening questions for COVID-19 risk and explanation of the test or therapy to be performed, in order to minimize the time spent in close in-person contact. Although the outlined principles are universal, their practical applications and implementation are dependent on prevalence dynamics of COVID-19 at specific locations and resources available to individual NMFs. A novel coronavirus from patients with pneumonia in China Incidental findings suggestive of COVID-19 in asymptomatic patients undergoing nuclear medicine procedures in a high-prevalence region ./cache/cord-278467-c0jw9dkw.txt ./txt/cord-278467-c0jw9dkw.txt