Evaluation of an asymptomatic COVID-19 patient post-surgery with chest radiography: A surgeon’s dilemma

Routine chest radiography is not a requirement in post-surgery cardiac bypass patients. However, the safety of abandoning routine chest radiographs in critically ill patients remains uncertain. Surgery in an asymptomatic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patient presents additional challenges in p...

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Autores principales: Govil, Gaurav, Tomar, Lavindra, Dhawan, Pawan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2021
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8641040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34909406
http://dx.doi.org/10.5501/wjv.v10.i6.326
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description Routine chest radiography is not a requirement in post-surgery cardiac bypass patients. However, the safety of abandoning routine chest radiographs in critically ill patients remains uncertain. Surgery in an asymptomatic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patient presents additional challenges in postoperative management. Chest radiography remains a valuable tool for assessment of all patients, even a stable one. Management of surgical patients as an emergency in an asymptomatic COVID-19 case remains a surgeon’s dilemma.
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spelling pubmed-86410402021-12-13 Evaluation of an asymptomatic COVID-19 patient post-surgery with chest radiography: A surgeon’s dilemma Govil, Gaurav Tomar, Lavindra Dhawan, Pawan World J Virol Letter to the Editor Routine chest radiography is not a requirement in post-surgery cardiac bypass patients. However, the safety of abandoning routine chest radiographs in critically ill patients remains uncertain. Surgery in an asymptomatic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patient presents additional challenges in postoperative management. Chest radiography remains a valuable tool for assessment of all patients, even a stable one. Management of surgical patients as an emergency in an asymptomatic COVID-19 case remains a surgeon’s dilemma. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2021-11-25 2021-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8641040/ /pubmed/34909406 http://dx.doi.org/10.5501/wjv.v10.i6.326 Text en ©The Author(s) 2021. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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title_short Evaluation of an asymptomatic COVID-19 patient post-surgery with chest radiography: A surgeon’s dilemma
title_sort evaluation of an asymptomatic covid-19 patient post-surgery with chest radiography: a surgeon’s dilemma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8641040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34909406
http://dx.doi.org/10.5501/wjv.v10.i6.326
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