Surveys on COVID-19 in nuclear medicine: what happened and what we learned

Salvatore Annunziata; Domenico Albano; Riccardo Laudicella; Matteo Bauckneht; Young Committee of the Italian Association of Nuclear Medicine (AIMN)

doi:10.1007/s40336-020-00391-z

Surveys on COVID-19 in nuclear medicine: what happened and what we learned

Clin Transl Imaging. 2020;8(5):303-305. doi: 10.1007/s40336-020-00391-z. Epub 2020 Sep 24.

Authors

Salvatore Annunziata¹, Domenico Albano², Riccardo Laudicella³, Matteo Bauckneht⁴; Young Committee of the Italian Association of Nuclear Medicine (AIMN)

Affiliations

¹ Nuclear Medicine Unit, IRCSS Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Via Elio Chianesi 53, 00144 Rome, Italy.
² Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Brescia and Spedali Civili Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
³ Nuclear Medicine Unit, Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and of Morpho-Functional Imaging, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
⁴ Nuclear Medicine Unit, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy.

Abstract

Introduction: To summarize and comment the available surveys on the impact of COVID-19 on Nuclear Medicine (NM) departments.

Methods: Recent surveys about the impact of COVID-19 on Nuclear Medicine (NM) departments have been searched on available scientific database.

Results: Three surveys have been found and commented. Some differences among the surveys should be kept in mind. All studies agreed that COVID-19 had a relevant impact on NM departments.

Conclusion: Surveys about the impact of COVID-19 in NM could improve the departments' daily activities, to find a compromise between the security protocols suggested by international guidelines.

Keywords: COVID; Nuclear Medicine; Survey.

Publication types

Review