TY - JOUR ID - 16887 TI - A Path to New Normal of Nuclear Medicine Facilities: Considerations for Reopening JO - Asia Oceania Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Biology JA - AOJNMB LA - en SN - 2322-5718 AU - Abbasi, Farhad AU - Gholamrezanezhad, Ali AU - jokar, narges AU - Assadi, Majid AD - Department of Infectious Diseases, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran AD - Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA AD - Persian Gulf Nuclear Medicine Research Center, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran Y1 - 2021 PY - 2021 VL - 9 IS - 1 SP - 80 EP - 85 KW - COVID-19 KW - new normal KW - Nuclear Medicine Facilities KW - Reopening KW - SARS-CoV-2 DO - 10.22038/aojnmb.2020.16887 N2 - The stormy clouds of the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak caused a rapidly spreading epidemic still hanging over the sphere. Any steps to transition toward a new normal should be guided by health authorities, together with economic and societal considerations. There are various items mainly falling into three classifications, including patient worry, clinical demand, and economic recession. Social distancing, lay-offs, and decreased number of patients with health insurance may lead to a prolonged period to retrieve normalcy. To return to a new normal, an individualized management model should be developed for each laboratory based on staff, instruments, services, crowding, physical space, hospital base unit, or outpatient clinic. Continuous training of different occupational staffs is among the key parameters in maintaining this readiness. The proposed response model should have internal and systemic integrity as well as coherence among the included items in two intra- and inter-unit management categories, namely thinking globally and acting locally. UR - https://aojnmb.mums.ac.ir/article_16887.html L1 - https://aojnmb.mums.ac.ir/article_16887_506bbcb37269c550b4f6f92930864302.pdf ER -