Minimising risk to thoracic surgical teams in an era of COVID-19: exploring possible preventative measures

The demands of curtailing the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic have disrupted the world’s ability to care for patients with thoracic pathologies. Those who undergo thoracic surgical therapeutic procedures are a high-risk category, likely to have impaired lung functio...

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Autores principales: Patel, Akshay Jatin, Mohamed, Saifullah, Caruana, Edward Joseph, Naidu, Babu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Singapore 2020
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Mini Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7672264/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33223630
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12055-020-01073-1
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description The demands of curtailing the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic have disrupted the world’s ability to care for patients with thoracic pathologies. Those who undergo thoracic surgical therapeutic procedures are a high-risk category, likely to have impaired lung function but also high risk for exposing clinical teams to aerosolised viral loads. In light of this global pandemic, thorough pre-procedural planning, adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), experienced personnel and judicious anaesthetic and intra-operative measures will serve to be instrumental in ensuring positive patient outcomes whilst still protecting the safety of healthcare workers.
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spelling pubmed-76722642020-11-18 Minimising risk to thoracic surgical teams in an era of COVID-19: exploring possible preventative measures Patel, Akshay Jatin Mohamed, Saifullah Caruana, Edward Joseph Naidu, Babu Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Mini Review Article The demands of curtailing the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic have disrupted the world’s ability to care for patients with thoracic pathologies. Those who undergo thoracic surgical therapeutic procedures are a high-risk category, likely to have impaired lung function but also high risk for exposing clinical teams to aerosolised viral loads. In light of this global pandemic, thorough pre-procedural planning, adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), experienced personnel and judicious anaesthetic and intra-operative measures will serve to be instrumental in ensuring positive patient outcomes whilst still protecting the safety of healthcare workers. Springer Singapore 2020-11-18 2021-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7672264/ /pubmed/33223630 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12055-020-01073-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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