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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 scann
by 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 agoI 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 agoDo 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.