Surgical operations during the COVID-19 outbreak: Should elective surgeries be suspended?

S Zarrintan - International Journal of Surgery, 2020 - journals.lww.com
The current outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) which causes severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) continues to spread since the end of …

Roadmap for restarting elective surgery during/after COVID-19 pandemic

D Sharma, V Agrawal, P Agarwal - Indian Journal of Surgery, 2020 - Springer
The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has already resulted in more than 5.3 million infections
and> 3, 42,000 deaths, and this number is increasing [1] with equally distressing …

Elective surgeries during the COVID-19 outbreak

J Lee, JY Choi, MS Kim - Journal of British Surgery, 2020 - academic.oup.com
COVID-19 has spread rapidly around the world1–3. Facing this unprecedented challenge,
surgical societies across the world have recommended postponement of elective surgery1 …

COVID-19: How can a department of general surgery survive in a pandemic?

C Guerci, A Maffioli, AA Bondurri, L Ferrario, F Lazzarin… - Surgery, 2020 - surgjournal.com
The outbreak of the coronavirus disease officially started on December 31, 2019 when the
Wuhan Municipal Health Commission reported 27 cases of pneumonia of an unknown …

Surgery in times of COVID-19—recommendations for hospital and patient management

S Flemming, M Hankir, RI Ernestus, F Seyfried… - … Archives of Surgery, 2020 - Springer
Background The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has escalated rapidly to a global …

We asked the experts: How do we maintain surgical quality standards for enhanced recovery programs after cancer surgery during the COVID-19 outbreak?

A Doussot, B Heyd, Z Lakkis - World journal of surgery, 2020 - Springer
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel viral disease that has spread rapidly
worldwide, becoming a pandemic. Among infected patients, around 20–30% of patients will …

Understanding surgical risk during COVID-19 pandemic: the rationale behind the decisions

K Blouhos, KA Boulas, A Paraskeva… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
On January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a global health alert for a
novel coronavirus named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) …

COVID-19: What are the challenges for NHS surgery?

NL Wielogórska, CC Ekwobi - Current Problems in Surgery, 2020 - Elsevier
In December, 2019 while COVID-19 was unfolding in China, surgeons in the United
Kingdom were enjoying some of their last few months of normality. By April, 2020 all …

[HTML][HTML] General surgery operating room practice in patients with COVID-19

AS Karaca, MM Ozmen, AD UÇar, AÇ Yasti… - Turkish Journal of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The virus COVID-19, which emerged in China in December 2019, was announced by the
World Health Organization as a pandemic in January 2020. It is known that infection is not …

To a new normal: surgery and COVID-19 during the transition phase

L Cobianchi, L Pugliese, A Peloso, F Dal Mas… - Annals of …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
The SARS-CoV2 (COVID-19) pandemic has been described as a ''black swan'': a rare and
unexpected event of large magnitude whose consequence will likely have a major role in …