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Figure 1: Radiology teams from our institution have minimized staff and equipment exposure by performing single-view portable radiographs through the windows on doors to isolation rooms. A) The patient is positioned standing or sitting in front of the door inside the isolation room with a nurse/staff wearing a lead shield, holding the plate to the patient’s chest. B) The portable machine camera is brought close to the glass, and adjustments are made to the machine to optimize the film. The film is passed by the gowned nurse outside the room with removal of the plastic sheet while passing to the X-ray staff outside the room, keeping the plate clean. C) While artifact from the window is sometimes present on the film, our radiologists have been able to read from these for multi-focal pneumonia and tube placement. Credit: University of Washington

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