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The early response of plastic and reconstructive surgery services to the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review
The World Health Organisation characterised the spread of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) as a pandemic in March 2020, signalling medical governance and professional organisations worldwide to make urgent changes in their service. We have performed a systematic review of the literature to identify...
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British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7476439/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32950410 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjps.2020.08.088 |
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author | Boyce, Louis Nicolaides, Marios Hanrahan, John Gerrard Sideris, Michail Pafitanis, Georgios |
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description | The World Health Organisation characterised the spread of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) as a pandemic in March 2020, signalling medical governance and professional organisations worldwide to make urgent changes in their service. We have performed a systematic review of the literature to identify all published literature on plastic surgery and COVID-19, in an effort to summarise the evidence for future reference. Our search identified 1207 articles from electronic databases and 17 from manual search, out of which 20 were included in the final data synthesis. Out of the included studies, most originated from the United States (n = 12), five from Europe, two from China and one from Australia. Strategies described to limit the spread and impact of the virus could be divided into nine distinct categories, including the suspension of non-essential services, use of telemedicine, use of personal protective equipment, screening patients for COVID-19, restructuring the healthcare team, adapting standard management practices, using distance-learning for trainees, promoting public education and initiatives, and minimising intra-hospital viral transmission. The ever-changing nature of the COVID-19 may prompt plastic surgeons to adapt special strategies as pandemic progresses and subsequently declines. The findings of this review can prove beneficial to other plastic surgery departments in informing their response strategies to the pandemic and in a second wave of the disease. |
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spelling | pubmed-74764392020-09-08 The early response of plastic and reconstructive surgery services to the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review Boyce, Louis Nicolaides, Marios Hanrahan, John Gerrard Sideris, Michail Pafitanis, Georgios J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg Review The World Health Organisation characterised the spread of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) as a pandemic in March 2020, signalling medical governance and professional organisations worldwide to make urgent changes in their service. We have performed a systematic review of the literature to identify all published literature on plastic surgery and COVID-19, in an effort to summarise the evidence for future reference. Our search identified 1207 articles from electronic databases and 17 from manual search, out of which 20 were included in the final data synthesis. Out of the included studies, most originated from the United States (n = 12), five from Europe, two from China and one from Australia. Strategies described to limit the spread and impact of the virus could be divided into nine distinct categories, including the suspension of non-essential services, use of telemedicine, use of personal protective equipment, screening patients for COVID-19, restructuring the healthcare team, adapting standard management practices, using distance-learning for trainees, promoting public education and initiatives, and minimising intra-hospital viral transmission. The ever-changing nature of the COVID-19 may prompt plastic surgeons to adapt special strategies as pandemic progresses and subsequently declines. The findings of this review can prove beneficial to other plastic surgery departments in informing their response strategies to the pandemic and in a second wave of the disease. British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020-11 2020-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7476439/ /pubmed/32950410 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjps.2020.08.088 Text en © 2020 British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons. 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. |
spellingShingle | Review Boyce, Louis Nicolaides, Marios Hanrahan, John Gerrard Sideris, Michail Pafitanis, Georgios The early response of plastic and reconstructive surgery services to the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review |
title | The early response of plastic and reconstructive surgery services to the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review |
title_full | The early response of plastic and reconstructive surgery services to the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review |
title_fullStr | The early response of plastic and reconstructive surgery services to the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review |
title_full_unstemmed | The early response of plastic and reconstructive surgery services to the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review |
title_short | The early response of plastic and reconstructive surgery services to the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review |
title_sort | early response of plastic and reconstructive surgery services to the covid-19 pandemic: a systematic review |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7476439/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32950410 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjps.2020.08.088 |
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