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A new role for orthopaedic surgeons: ongoing changes, lessons learned, and perspectives from a level I trauma center during the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has redefined global health care. With almost 13 million confirmed cases worldwide, medical professionals have been forced to modify their practice to take care of an expanded, critically ill population. Institutions have been challenged to implement innovative ways to maximize...

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Autores principales: Congiusta, Dominick V., Otero, Katie, Ippolito, Joseph, Thomson, Jennifer, Beebe, Kathleen S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Board of Trustees. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7390768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32738400
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jse.2020.07.020
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author Congiusta, Dominick V.
Otero, Katie
Ippolito, Joseph
Thomson, Jennifer
Beebe, Kathleen S.
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has redefined global health care. With almost 13 million confirmed cases worldwide, medical professionals have been forced to modify their practice to take care of an expanded, critically ill population. Institutions have been challenged to implement innovative ways to maximize the utility and the safety of residents and personnel. Guided by lessons learned from prior mass causalities, wars, and previous pandemics, adjustments have been made in order to provide optimal care for all patients while still protecting limited resources and the lives of health care workers. Specialists who are trained in the management of lethal aspects of this disease continue to have a high demand and obvious role. Orthopedic surgeons, with ill-defined roles, have been redeployed to manage complex medical problems. Still, the need to manage trauma, fractures, infections, tumors, and dislocations remains a necessity. Various innovative measures have been taken to maximize the utility and safety of residents in the inpatient and outpatient setting. Commonalities to most measures and distinct changes in practice philosophy can be identified and applied to both current and future pandemic responses.
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spelling pubmed-73907682020-07-30 A new role for orthopaedic surgeons: ongoing changes, lessons learned, and perspectives from a level I trauma center during the COVID-19 pandemic Congiusta, Dominick V. Otero, Katie Ippolito, Joseph Thomson, Jennifer Beebe, Kathleen S. J Shoulder Elbow Surg Covid-19 The COVID-19 pandemic has redefined global health care. With almost 13 million confirmed cases worldwide, medical professionals have been forced to modify their practice to take care of an expanded, critically ill population. Institutions have been challenged to implement innovative ways to maximize the utility and the safety of residents and personnel. Guided by lessons learned from prior mass causalities, wars, and previous pandemics, adjustments have been made in order to provide optimal care for all patients while still protecting limited resources and the lives of health care workers. Specialists who are trained in the management of lethal aspects of this disease continue to have a high demand and obvious role. Orthopedic surgeons, with ill-defined roles, have been redeployed to manage complex medical problems. Still, the need to manage trauma, fractures, infections, tumors, and dislocations remains a necessity. Various innovative measures have been taken to maximize the utility and safety of residents in the inpatient and outpatient setting. Commonalities to most measures and distinct changes in practice philosophy can be identified and applied to both current and future pandemic responses. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Board of Trustees. 2020-10 2020-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7390768/ /pubmed/32738400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jse.2020.07.020 Text en © 2020 Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Board of Trustees. 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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Congiusta, Dominick V.
Otero, Katie
Ippolito, Joseph
Thomson, Jennifer
Beebe, Kathleen S.
A new role for orthopaedic surgeons: ongoing changes, lessons learned, and perspectives from a level I trauma center during the COVID-19 pandemic
title A new role for orthopaedic surgeons: ongoing changes, lessons learned, and perspectives from a level I trauma center during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full A new role for orthopaedic surgeons: ongoing changes, lessons learned, and perspectives from a level I trauma center during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_fullStr A new role for orthopaedic surgeons: ongoing changes, lessons learned, and perspectives from a level I trauma center during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed A new role for orthopaedic surgeons: ongoing changes, lessons learned, and perspectives from a level I trauma center during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_short A new role for orthopaedic surgeons: ongoing changes, lessons learned, and perspectives from a level I trauma center during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort new role for orthopaedic surgeons: ongoing changes, lessons learned, and perspectives from a level i trauma center during the covid-19 pandemic
topic Covid-19
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7390768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32738400
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jse.2020.07.020
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