COVID-19: What Should Interventional Radiologists Know and What Can They Do?

J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2020 Jun;31(6):876-881. doi: 10.1016/j.jvir.2020.03.022. Epub 2020 Apr 9.

Abstract

The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in late December 2019 in Wuhan, China, has been characterized as a "pandemic" by the World Health Organization and has resulted in 81,603 confirmed cases in China, among the 334,981 cases confirmed in 189 countries as of 09:00 am, March 24, 2020 (China central standard time). During the past 3 months, hundreds of thousands of Chinese health care workers, including interventional radiologists (IRs), have been fighting this battle against the horrifying COVID-19 disease. As IRs, what should we know and what can we do when facing this challenge? This paper shares the experience we have gone through.

Publication types

  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • COVID-19
  • Coronavirus Infections / complications*
  • Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control*
  • Humans
  • Pandemics / prevention & control*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / complications*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control*
  • Radiologists
  • Radiology, Interventional / methods*