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. 2020 Jul;17(7):873-877.
doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2020.05.005. Epub 2020 May 16.

Changes in Interventional Radiology Practice in a Tertiary Academic Center in the United States During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

Alexis M Cahalane  1 , Jie Cui  1 , Robert M Sheridan  2 , Ashraf Thabet  3 , Patrick D Sutphin  4 , William E Palmer  5 , Joshua A Hirsch  6 , Sanjeeva P Kalva  7
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Changes in Interventional Radiology Practice in a Tertiary Academic Center in the United States During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

Alexis M Cahalane et al. J Am Coll Radiol. 2020 Jul.
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Fig 1
A marked reduction in overall interventional radiology case volume was noticed during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic (March 16, 2020, to April 17, 2020) compared with the same time period in 2019, affecting all imaging modalities (A), as well as procedures performed in both inpatient (inpt) (B) and outpatient (outpt) (C) settings. The largest percentage decrease in CT-guided procedure volume was seen among bone and central nervous system (CNS) cases (D). Among fluoroscopy (FL)-guided procedures, biliary cases demonstrated a small percentage increase in number between 2019 and 2020, and venous access (VA) and interventional oncology (IO) procedures demonstrated the smallest percentage decrease (E). Among ultrasound (US)-guided procedures, biopsies decreased by the largest percentage (F). G tube = gastrostomy or jejunostomy tube placement.
Fig 2
Fig 2
There was a substantial reduction in daily caseload at the main hospital campus during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic compared with 2019, and outpatient interventional radiology (IR) suite caseload remained stable (A). The reduction of caseload at the main hospital campus during the COVID-19 pandemic was observed in all 4 weeks, and weekly procedure numbers started to increase at the outpatient (Outpt) IR suite at the beginning of week 2 (B). The number of cases performed at the main hospital campus each week was consistently reduced by 50% during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the numbers of cases performed at the outpatient IR suite increased in 3 of the 4 weeks under review (C).
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