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 …

Planning the full recovery phase: an antifragile perspective on surgery after COVID-19

L Cobianchi, F Dal Mas, A Peloso, L Pugliese… - Annals of …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
The global COVID-19 pandemic has had dramatic effects on healthcare systems worldwide,
being described as a ''black swan,''a rare and unexpected event whose magnitude will likely …

Managing COVID-19 in surgical systems

ME Brindle, A Gawande - Annals of surgery, 2020 - journals.lww.com
As COVID-19 spreads quickly from Europe and Asia to the rest of the world, hospitals are
rapidly becoming hot zones for treatment and transmission of this disease in settings with …

COVID-19 and the general surgical department–measures to reduce spread of SARS-COV-2 among surgeons

D Yeo, C Yeo, S Kaushal, G Tan - Annals of Surgery, 2020 - journals.lww.com
The end of 2019 was marked by the emergence of a novel coronavirus, 1 now termed as
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). SARS-CoV-2 causes …

Elective surgery in the time of COVID-19

A Diaz, BA Sarac… - The American …, 2020 - americanjournalofsurgery.com
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has placed a significant strain on the United States health care
system, and frontline healthcare workers are rapidly altering their professional …

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 …

Surgical response to COVID-19 pandemic: a Singapore perspective

S Ahmed, WLG Tan, YL Chong - Journal of the American College …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread rapidly and overwhelm health systems around
the world. Tan Tock Seng Hospital was the epicenter in the coordination and management …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Elective surgery after the pandemic: waves beyond the horizon

J Mayol, C Fernández Pérez - Journal of British Surgery, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) outbreak became a pandemic in less than 4 months1. Most
healthcare systems have seen the capacity to treat surgical patients decrease dramatically …

[HTML][HTML] What happened to surgical emergencies in the era of COVID-19 outbreak? Considerations of surgeons working in an Italian COVID-19 red zone

A Patriti, E Eugeni, F Guerra - Updates in surgery, 2020 - Springer
The world healthcare community is facing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak caused
by SARS-CoV-2 that is progressively spreading to several countries. Currently, Italy is the …