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Cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic had several specific as well as general implications on cardiac surgery. Acute respiratory distress made extracorporeal oxygenation necessary in a significant number of patients and accordingly many patients were treated in anesthesiological and even more in cardiac surgical in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10126537/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37097474 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00059-023-05175-5 |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic had several specific as well as general implications on cardiac surgery. Acute respiratory distress made extracorporeal oxygenation necessary in a significant number of patients and accordingly many patients were treated in anesthesiological and even more in cardiac surgical intensive care units, which left only a limited number of beds in the intensive care units available for elective surgery cases. Moreover, the necessary availability of intensive care beds for severely diseased COVID-19 patients in general posed a further limit, as did the relevant number of diseased personnel. Specific emergency plans were developed for many heart surgery units, limiting the number of elective cases. Increasing waiting lists were of course stressful for numerous elective-surgery patients and the decreased number of heart operations also meant a financial burden for many units. |
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spelling | pubmed-101265372023-04-27 Cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic Moosdorf, Rainer Herz Main Topic The COVID-19 pandemic had several specific as well as general implications on cardiac surgery. Acute respiratory distress made extracorporeal oxygenation necessary in a significant number of patients and accordingly many patients were treated in anesthesiological and even more in cardiac surgical intensive care units, which left only a limited number of beds in the intensive care units available for elective surgery cases. Moreover, the necessary availability of intensive care beds for severely diseased COVID-19 patients in general posed a further limit, as did the relevant number of diseased personnel. Specific emergency plans were developed for many heart surgery units, limiting the number of elective cases. Increasing waiting lists were of course stressful for numerous elective-surgery patients and the decreased number of heart operations also meant a financial burden for many units. Springer Medizin 2023-04-25 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10126537/ /pubmed/37097474 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00059-023-05175-5 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Medizin Verlag GmbH, ein Teil von Springer Nature 2023 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Main Topic Moosdorf, Rainer Cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | cardiac surgery during the covid-19 pandemic |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10126537/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37097474 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00059-023-05175-5 |
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