The media portrayed scenes of just terror, frankly, particularly at Elmhurst Hospital. You see these lines of people that are waiting outside with so much anxiety and you know where that place is, you’ve driven past, you’ve seen with your own eyes that this is in your backyard. Then it starts hitting very close to home. —Akhilesh K. Sista, MD, FSIR

Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR, speaks with Akhilesh K. Sista, MD, FSIR, an interventional radiologist in New York, about the COVID-19 impact on his city and practice, changes in response since the early peak, and thrombosis trends in these patients.

Find IR resources for COVID-19 planning, staffing, personal protective equipment and more at the SIR website, sirweb.org.

Listen to more interventional radiologist perspectives on COVID-19:

• June 9: Atlanta, Ga. (Janice Newsome, MD, FSIR)
• May 20: Miami, Fla. (Costantino S. Peña, MD, FSIR)
• May 8: Chicago, Ill. (George Behrens, MD)
• April 29: Palo Alto, Calif. (Raj Shah, MD)
• April 20: Seattle, Wash. (R. Torrance Andrews, MD, FSIR)

Note: This episode was recorded on July 7, 2020.  

SIR thanks BD for its support of this episode.

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