Chest
Volume 158, Issue 3, September 2020, Pages 1268-1281
Thoracic Oncology: Guideline and Consensus StatementThe Use of Bronchoscopy During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: CHEST/AABIP Guideline and Expert Panel Report
Key Words
bronchoscopy
COVID-19
personal protective equipment
Abbreviations
AABIP
American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology
AGP
aerosol generating procedure
CDC
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CHEST
American College of Chest Physicians
COVID-19
coronavirus disease 2019
GRADE
Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations
HCW
health-care worker
PAPR
powered air purifying respirator
PICO
Population, Intervention, Comparator, and Outcome
PPE
personal protective equipment
rRT-PCR
real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction
SARS-CoV-2
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
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