Optimizing response in surgical systems during and after COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from China and the UK – Perspective

Key messages: • Triage strategies to keep suspected and confirmed cases in isolation. • Virtual consultations and limiting all out patient activity. • Screening asymptomatic patients with nucleic acid test, antibody testing & CT chest. • Designated staff and operating areas for COVID 19 infected...

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Autores principales: Liu, Zheng, Ding, Zhao, Guan, Xu, Zhang, Yawei, Wang, Xishan, Khan, Jim S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: IJS Publishing Group Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7196555/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32376240
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsu.2020.04.062
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Ding, Zhao
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Wang, Xishan
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description Key messages: • Triage strategies to keep suspected and confirmed cases in isolation. • Virtual consultations and limiting all out patient activity. • Screening asymptomatic patients with nucleic acid test, antibody testing & CT chest. • Designated staff and operating areas for COVID 19 infected patients. • Careful use of laparoscopy with precautions. • Limited operating on cancer patients with consideration of alternatives treatment strategies. • Precautions and protocol for surgical management are needed after the epidemic.
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spelling pubmed-71965552020-05-04 Optimizing response in surgical systems during and after COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from China and the UK – Perspective Liu, Zheng Ding, Zhao Guan, Xu Zhang, Yawei Wang, Xishan Khan, Jim S. Int J Surg Article Key messages: • Triage strategies to keep suspected and confirmed cases in isolation. • Virtual consultations and limiting all out patient activity. • Screening asymptomatic patients with nucleic acid test, antibody testing & CT chest. • Designated staff and operating areas for COVID 19 infected patients. • Careful use of laparoscopy with precautions. • Limited operating on cancer patients with consideration of alternatives treatment strategies. • Precautions and protocol for surgical management are needed after the epidemic. IJS Publishing Group Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020-06 2020-05-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7196555/ /pubmed/32376240 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsu.2020.04.062 Text en © 2020 IJS Publishing Group Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 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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