Protecting surgical teams during the COVID-19 outbreak: a narrative review and clinical considerations

GA Brat, S Hersey, K Chhabra, A Gupta… - Annals of surgery, 2023 - journals.lww.com
2019 (COVID-19), has caused a global pandemic that may infect millions in the United
States alone. Given the baseline rate of emergency operations in the United States, 1 …

Surgery in a time of uncertainty: a need for universal respiratory precautions in the operating room

EH Livingston - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
2019 (COVID-19) in the past 4 months, but still much remains unknown. Severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is well characterized but how widely it …

[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 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 …

[HTML][HTML] How to risk-stratify elective surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic?

PF Stahel - Patient safety in surgery, 2020 - Springer
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) a global pandemic, which classifies the outbreak as an …

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 …

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 …

Precautions for operating room team members during the COVID-19 pandemic

JD Forrester, AK Nassar, PM Maggio… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) can infect healthcare
workers. We developed an institutional algorithm to protect operating room team members …

Surgeons, ethics, and COVID-19: early lessons learned

P Angelos - Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2020 - journals.lww.com
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, surgeons are being forced to shift from patient-
centered ethics to public health ethics. This shift will inevitably cause moral distress for …

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 …