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cord-253660-bfmpxtoy	Currie, Geoff	COVID19 impact on nuclear medicine: an Australian perspective	2020-04-15		.txt	text/plain	2770	150	51	The nuclear medicine profession is also gifted with inherent capabilities associated with radiation safety management that confer agility in the changing landscape; radiation control provides an infection control barrier in practice, ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) principles are transferrable, foundations of radiation safety (time, distance and shielding) translate to infection control and the concept of justification, optimisation and limitation can provide immediate guidance for decision making in the COVID19 crisis. The typical nuclear medicine patient is not only high risk for contracting COVID19 but is the most vulnerable to dire or fatal outcomes. This approach allowed the high-volume diagnostic CT scanner to be a COVID19-free zone for negative patents with the lower volume symptomatic or COVIDpositive patients circulating through CT on hybrid nuclear medicine systems. In the larger public sector, a single hospital nuclear medicine department may be open to service patients while all others are in lockdown.	./cache/cord-253660-bfmpxtoy.txt	./txt/cord-253660-bfmpxtoy.txt