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Effects of coronavirus disease 2019 on the Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Initiative arterial procedure registry

In the present report, we have described the abrupt pivot of Vascular Quality Initiative physician members away from standard clinical practice to a restrictive phase of emergent and urgent vascular procedures in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The Society for Vascular...

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Autores principales: Natarajan, Jay P., Mahenthiran, Ashorne K., Bertges, Daniel J., Huffman, Kristopher M., Eldrup-Jorgensen, Jens, Lemmon, Gary W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: by the Society for Vascular Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7857982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33548419
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvs.2020.12.087
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author Natarajan, Jay P.
Mahenthiran, Ashorne K.
Bertges, Daniel J.
Huffman, Kristopher M.
Eldrup-Jorgensen, Jens
Lemmon, Gary W.
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Mahenthiran, Ashorne K.
Bertges, Daniel J.
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description In the present report, we have described the abrupt pivot of Vascular Quality Initiative physician members away from standard clinical practice to a restrictive phase of emergent and urgent vascular procedures in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The Society for Vascular Surgery Patient Safety Organization queried both data managers and physicians in May 2020 to discern the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Approximately three fourths of physicians (74%) had adopted a restrictive operating policy for urgent and emergent cases only. However, one half had considered “time sensitive” elective cases as urgent. Data manager case entry was affected by both low case volumes and low staffing resulting from reassignment or furlough. A sevenfold reduction in arterial Vascular Quality Initiative case volume entry was noted in the first quarter of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019. The downstream consequences of delaying vascular procedures for carotid artery stenosis, aortic aneurysm repair, vascular access, and chronic limb ischemia remain undetermined. Further ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown will likely be amplified if resumption of elective vascular care is delayed beyond a short window of time.
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spelling pubmed-78579822021-02-04 Effects of coronavirus disease 2019 on the Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Initiative arterial procedure registry Natarajan, Jay P. Mahenthiran, Ashorne K. Bertges, Daniel J. Huffman, Kristopher M. Eldrup-Jorgensen, Jens Lemmon, Gary W. J Vasc Surg COVID-19 and vascular disease In the present report, we have described the abrupt pivot of Vascular Quality Initiative physician members away from standard clinical practice to a restrictive phase of emergent and urgent vascular procedures in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The Society for Vascular Surgery Patient Safety Organization queried both data managers and physicians in May 2020 to discern the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Approximately three fourths of physicians (74%) had adopted a restrictive operating policy for urgent and emergent cases only. However, one half had considered “time sensitive” elective cases as urgent. Data manager case entry was affected by both low case volumes and low staffing resulting from reassignment or furlough. A sevenfold reduction in arterial Vascular Quality Initiative case volume entry was noted in the first quarter of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019. The downstream consequences of delaying vascular procedures for carotid artery stenosis, aortic aneurysm repair, vascular access, and chronic limb ischemia remain undetermined. Further ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown will likely be amplified if resumption of elective vascular care is delayed beyond a short window of time. by the Society for Vascular Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021-06 2021-02-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7857982/ /pubmed/33548419 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvs.2020.12.087 Text en © 2021 by the Society for Vascular Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. 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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Natarajan, Jay P.
Mahenthiran, Ashorne K.
Bertges, Daniel J.
Huffman, Kristopher M.
Eldrup-Jorgensen, Jens
Lemmon, Gary W.
Effects of coronavirus disease 2019 on the Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Initiative arterial procedure registry
title Effects of coronavirus disease 2019 on the Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Initiative arterial procedure registry
title_full Effects of coronavirus disease 2019 on the Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Initiative arterial procedure registry
title_fullStr Effects of coronavirus disease 2019 on the Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Initiative arterial procedure registry
title_full_unstemmed Effects of coronavirus disease 2019 on the Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Initiative arterial procedure registry
title_short Effects of coronavirus disease 2019 on the Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Initiative arterial procedure registry
title_sort effects of coronavirus disease 2019 on the society for vascular surgery vascular quality initiative arterial procedure registry
topic COVID-19 and vascular disease
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7857982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33548419
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvs.2020.12.087
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