Longitudinal study of interventional radiology activity in a large metropolitan Italian tertiary care hospital: how the COVID-19 pandemic emergency has changed our activity.
Roberto IezziIacopo ValenteAlessandro CinaAlessandro PosaAndrea ContegiacomoAndrea AlexandreFrancesco D'ArgentoEmilio LozuponeMichele BaroneFrancesca GiubboliniLuca MiloniaAndrea RomiAnna Rita ScrofaniAlessandro PedicelliRiccardo ManfrediCesare ColosimoPublished in: European radiology (2020)
• Coronavirus disease pandemic determined a reduction of interventional radiology activity as compared to the same period of the previous year. • Interventional radiology procedures for life-threatening conditions and non-deferrable oncologic treatments were prioritized as opposed to elective procedures. • Strict adoption of safe procedures allowed us to have until now no incidents of cross-infection of non-infected from infected patients and no evidence of COVID-19 infection of HCWs in the IR service.