Department of Emergency and Trauma Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Department of Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Can Assoc Radiol J. 2020 Aug;71(3):293-300. doi: 10.1177/0846537120916419. Epub 2020 Mar 28.
Emergency trauma radiology, although a relatively new subspecialty of radiology, plays a critical role in both the diagnosis/triage of acutely ill patients, but even more important in providing leadership and taking the lead in the preparedness of imaging departments in dealing with novel highly infectious communicable diseases and mass casualties. This has become even more apparent in dealing with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, first emerged in late 2019. We review the symptoms, epidemiology, and testing for this disease. We discuss characteristic imaging findings of COVID-19 in relation to other modern coronavirus diseases including SARS and MERS. We discuss roles that community radiology clinics, outpatient radiology departments, and emergency radiology departments can play in the diagnosis of this disease. We review practical methods to reduce spread of infections within radiology departments.
急诊创伤放射学虽然是放射学的一个相对较新的亚专业，但在急性疾病患者的诊断/分诊中起着关键作用，更重要的是在应对新型高传染性传染病和大量伤亡方面，为影像部门的准备工作提供领导和带头作用。在处理由新型冠状病毒 SARS-CoV-2 引起的 COVID-19 疾病时，这一点变得更加明显。该疾病于 2019 年末首次出现。我们回顾了这种疾病的症状、流行病学和检测方法。我们讨论了 COVID-19 与包括 SARS 和 MERS 在内的其他现代冠状病毒疾病的特征性影像学表现。我们讨论了社区放射科诊所、门诊放射科和急诊放射科在诊断这种疾病中的作用。我们回顾了在放射科内减少感染传播的实用方法。
