Related Articles The Battle Against Coronavirus Disease 2019 COVID 19 Emergency Management and Infection Control in a Radiology Department J Am Coll Radiol 2020 Mar 21 Authors Huang Z Zhao S Li Z Chen W Zhao L Deng L Song B Abstract OBJECTIVE To describe the strategy and the emergency management and infection control procedures of our radiology department during the COVID 19 outbreak METHODS We set up emergency management and sensing control teams The team formulated various measures such as reconfiguration of the radiology department personal protection and staff training standardized imaging examination procedures for fever patients and common patients and so on RESULTS From January 21 to March 9 3 083 people underwent fever CT examinations Including the initial examination and reexamination the total number of fever CT examination is 3 340 As a result of our precautions none of the staff of the radiology department was infected with COVID 19 CONCLUSION Strategic planning and adequate protections can help protect patients and staff against a highly infectious disease while allow normal functioning at a high volume capacity PMID 32208140 PubMed as supplied by publisher