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Performing Bronchoscopy in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Practice Statement from an International Expert Panel

These recommendations for physicians who perform bronchoscopy will help to protect those patients (un)-affected by the current COVID-19 pandemic, minimize the risk of transmission, and maintain clinical care for all patients.

  • Luo, F.
  • Darwiche, K.
  • Singh, S.
  • Torrego, A.
  • Steinfort, D. P.
  • Gasparini, S.
  • Liu, D.
  • Zhang, W.
  • Fernandez-Bussy, S.
  • Herth, F. J. F.
  • Shah, P. L.

Keywords

  • Bronchoscopes
  • Bronchoscopy/*methods/standards
  • Coronavirus Infections/diagnosis/therapy/*transmission
  • Equipment Reuse
  • Expert Testimony
  • Humans
  • Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional/*prevention & control
  • Intensive Care Units
  • International Cooperation
  • Masks
  • Pandemics
  • *Personal Protective Equipment
  • Pneumonia, Viral/diagnosis/therapy/*transmission
  • *Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • *Bronchoscopy
  • *covid-19
  • *Interventional pneumology
Publication details
DOI: 10.1159/000507898
Journal: Respiration
Pages: 417-422 
Number: 5
Work Type: Original
Location: TLRC
Disease Area: PALI, PLI
Partner / Member: Thorax
Access-Number: 32344422
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