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Otolaryngology Surgical Activity in Tertiary Care Center During the Covid-19 Lockdown

Corona virus disease (COVID 19) is an infectious respiratory disease caused by the novel virus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). With many countries implementing lockdown the surgical activities in the division of otolaryngology across the world has been affected with man...

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Autores principales: Atru, Balasubramanyam, Sutrave, Mithun, George, Rani, James, Rhea, Ross, Anita, C.B, Pratibha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer India 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7528446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33020733
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12070-020-02155-7
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author Atru, Balasubramanyam
Sutrave, Mithun
George, Rani
James, Rhea
Ross, Anita
C.B, Pratibha
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description Corona virus disease (COVID 19) is an infectious respiratory disease caused by the novel virus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). With many countries implementing lockdown the surgical activities in the division of otolaryngology across the world has been affected with many hospital confining themselves to only emergency or essential surgeries. The aim of this work is to report and discuss the in the surgical activity of the otolaryngology unit of the St John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore (India) during the pandemic. We performed acute and subacute emergencies which include diagnosis and treatment of malignant tumors of the head and neck, management of airway emergencies in adults and children, drainage of abscesses of the head and neck, Foreign body removal, emergency nasal debridement and surgeries for the unsafe ear. With the pandemic the surgical activities in otolaryngology changed drastically and with strict protocol and triaging put in place the risk for Health care workers was avoided and services to patients delivered.
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spelling pubmed-75284462020-10-01 Otolaryngology Surgical Activity in Tertiary Care Center During the Covid-19 Lockdown Atru, Balasubramanyam Sutrave, Mithun George, Rani James, Rhea Ross, Anita C.B, Pratibha Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg Original Article Corona virus disease (COVID 19) is an infectious respiratory disease caused by the novel virus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). With many countries implementing lockdown the surgical activities in the division of otolaryngology across the world has been affected with many hospital confining themselves to only emergency or essential surgeries. The aim of this work is to report and discuss the in the surgical activity of the otolaryngology unit of the St John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore (India) during the pandemic. We performed acute and subacute emergencies which include diagnosis and treatment of malignant tumors of the head and neck, management of airway emergencies in adults and children, drainage of abscesses of the head and neck, Foreign body removal, emergency nasal debridement and surgeries for the unsafe ear. With the pandemic the surgical activities in otolaryngology changed drastically and with strict protocol and triaging put in place the risk for Health care workers was avoided and services to patients delivered. Springer India 2020-10-01 2022-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7528446/ /pubmed/33020733 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12070-020-02155-7 Text en © Association of Otolaryngologists of India 2020
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Otolaryngology Surgical Activity in Tertiary Care Center During the Covid-19 Lockdown
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title_full Otolaryngology Surgical Activity in Tertiary Care Center During the Covid-19 Lockdown
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title_short Otolaryngology Surgical Activity in Tertiary Care Center During the Covid-19 Lockdown
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7528446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33020733
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12070-020-02155-7
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