The Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the Practice of Hand Surgery in Singapore

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is rapidly evolving. Tan Tock Seng Hospital and the National Centre for Infectious Disease see the majority of confirmed and suspected cases in Singapore. This article describes the impact of COVID-19 on the practice of hand and reconstructive microsu...

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Autores principales: Hwee, Jolie, Chiew, Jean, Sechachalam, Sreedharan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7188642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32387156
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhsa.2020.04.023
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spelling pubmed-71886422020-04-29 The Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the Practice of Hand Surgery in Singapore Hwee, Jolie Chiew, Jean Sechachalam, Sreedharan J Hand Surg Am Article The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is rapidly evolving. Tan Tock Seng Hospital and the National Centre for Infectious Disease see the majority of confirmed and suspected cases in Singapore. This article describes the impact of COVID-19 on the practice of hand and reconstructive microsurgery (HRM) in our institution. It details our department’s response as the situation escalated and the impact on the HRM elective and emergency workload, including the use of personal protective equipment on the surgical practice of HRM, as well as the effects of the condition on social and academic life. by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. 2020-06 2020-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7188642/ /pubmed/32387156 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhsa.2020.04.023 Text en © 2020 by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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