World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Position Statement: How to Perform a Safe Ultrasound Examination and Clean Equipment in the Context of COVID-19

World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Safety Committee (Jacques S. Abramowicz, Iwaki Akiyama, David Evans, J. Brian Fowlkes, Karel Marsal, Yusef Sayeed and Gail ter Haar), J S Abramowicz, J M Basseal, World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Safety Committee (Jacques S. Abramowicz, Iwaki Akiyama, David Evans, J. Brian Fowlkes, Karel Marsal, Yusef Sayeed and Gail ter Haar), J S Abramowicz, J M Basseal

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Keywords: COVID-19; Disinfection; Equipment cleaning; Guidelines; Infection prevention; Transducer; Ultrasound; WFUMB.

Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest disclosure The authors declare that they have no competing interest and have not received any financial support that may pose a conflict of interest. Products mentioned in this guidance document are not endorsed by WFUMB or authors and are stated only as examples for particular regions that have access to these products.

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