The accuracy of chest computed tomography in symptomatic patients is high, but used as a single diagnostic test, computed tomography can not safely diagnose or exclude coronavirus infection. Point of care Lung Ultrasound is reducing reliance on CT in many centres. Lung ultrasound is a very simple technique that can be learnt easily. Lung ultrasound is detecting abnormalities even in asymptomatic patients. There is a large influx of patients it will be difficult to send these patients to the radiology department then clean the room and x-ray machine before imaging the next patient. Portable x-rays will also be challenging. Tech will don PPE, Image, clean machine, doff PPE!
Chest CT imaging has high sensitivity for diagnosis of COVID-19.
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In fact it can vary between 80-97%. For more details and information about this subject i suggest you to see links and attached files on topic.
https://www.mdmag.com/medical-news/comparing-rt-pcr-and-chest-ct-for-diagnosing-covid19
https://healthcare-in-europe.com/en/news/ct-outperforms-lab-diagnosis-for-coronavirus-infection.html
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Chest CT may become useful as a secondary method for the rapid diagnosis of COVID-19 and for optimizing the management of patients. However, CT can not be used for identifying specific viruses directly.
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