Will the guidelines and recommendations for surgery during COVID-19 pandemic still be valid if it becomes endemic?
COVID-19
COVID-19 endemic
COVID-19 pandemic
SARS-CoV-2
Surgery guidelines
Journal
International journal of surgery (London, England)
ISSN: 1743-9159
Titre abrégé: Int J Surg
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101228232
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jul 2020
Jul 2020
Historique:
received:
01
06
2020
accepted:
04
06
2020
pubmed:
13
6
2020
medline:
16
7
2020
entrez:
13
6
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The current COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all the healthcare sectors all over the world. The WHO and various other health organizations have been issuing recommendations and guidelines for surgical practice and patient management during the current pandemic. Some of these guidelines include triaging of the patients, prioritizing emergency surgery and delaying the elective surgical procedures till the COVID-19 pandemic is over. However, it seems that COVID-19 might become endemic in the community and current guidelines might not hold true. Surgical practices cannot remain suspended forever as it will have a deleterious effect on surgeons and patients. Therefore we need novel guidelines so that the surgeons can resume their general surgical practice as soon as possible.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32531306
pii: S1743-9191(20)30493-3
doi: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2020.06.011
pmc: PMC7280821
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Letter
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
250-251Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 IJS Publishing Group Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The author declares no potential conflicts of interest with respect of research, authorship and/or publication of this article.
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