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CT scan room and machine is going to need a lot of cleaning.

• mattkrause 7y ago
  I've read that that's the real bottleneck--you need to clean the bejesus out of the machine if you don't want it becoming part of the problem. The actual scanning itself only takes a moment. We do head ones and they're surprisingly fast once everything's ready to go.
  • Gibbon1 7y ago
    I saw a summary of China's efforts, supposedly before they had enough testing available they were at one point running 300-400 patients a day through each CT machine in Wuhan. That's one every 4 minutes.
    • mattkrause 7y ago
      Do you know if they did anything clever to keep the scanners clean? I wonder if you could somehow isolate the patient rather than deep-clean the machine (ours has some exposed moving parts, which would make that time-consuming, but perhaps the non-research ones are better designed).
      • Gibbon1 7y ago
        > isolate the patient That's what I would do. Someone else that claims to be a radiology tech said you just need to wipe the machine down for SARS since it's spread by droplets and fluids.