Guidelines for the orthopedic surgeon in the era of COVID-19.

Clinical guidelines orthopaedics practice settings

Journal

Orthopedic reviews
ISSN: 2035-8237
Titre abrégé: Orthop Rev (Pavia)
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101524779

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
31 Dec 2020
Historique:
received: 08 08 2020
accepted: 24 10 2020
entrez: 15 2 2021
pubmed: 16 2 2021
medline: 16 2 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Amid the current pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), orthopaedic surgery was one of the fewer specialties that remained active managing emergent and urgent orthopaedic and trauma cases. On the other hand, with the continued spread of this pandemic and its associated socioeconomic confinement and unpredictability of the pandemic curve; many health care facilities were forced into halting all elective and non-urgent activities including orthopaedic specialties. This in part was to help in reallocation of required resources and focusing on the proper management of COVID-19 patients, and to prevent the transmission of infection among health care workers and patients. In this article we analyzed developments and recommendations of international reports about the current outbreak and its impact on the practice of orthopaedic surgery. Our aim was to provide comprehensive and easy guidelines for the management of urgent and emergent cases in hot zones and for the process of returning to usual orthopaedic work flow in a balanced strategy to assure safe practice and providing quality care without the risk of exhausting institutional resources or the risk of COVID- 19 transmission among health care workers or patients.

Identifiants

pubmed: 33585025
doi: 10.4081/or.2020.8833
pmc: PMC7874952
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

8833

Informations de copyright

©Copyright: the Author(s).

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Conflict of interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Monther A Gharaibeh (MA)

Department of General and Special Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The Hashemite University, Zarqa.

Badera Al Mohammad (B)

Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid.

Besher Gharaibeh (B)

Faculty of Nursing, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.

Laith Khasawneh (L)

Department of General and Special Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The Hashemite University, Zarqa.

Saeed Al-Naser (S)

Department of General and Special Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The Hashemite University, Zarqa.

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