Can patients with asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection safely undergo elective surgery?

Current or recent infection with SARS-CoV-2 increases the risk of perioperative morbidity and mortality. Consensus guidelines recommend delaying elective major surgery after acute SARS-CoV-2 infection for 7 or 8 weeks. However, because of the growing backlog of untreated surgical disease and the pot...

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Autores principales: Glasbey, James C., Dobbs, Thomas D., Abbott, Tom E.F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: British Journal of Anaesthesia. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8907026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35369990
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bja.2022.03.003
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description Current or recent infection with SARS-CoV-2 increases the risk of perioperative morbidity and mortality. Consensus guidelines recommend delaying elective major surgery after acute SARS-CoV-2 infection for 7 or 8 weeks. However, because of the growing backlog of untreated surgical disease and the potential risks of delaying surgery, surgical services may be under pressure to reduce this period. Here, we discuss the risks and benefits of delaying surgery for patients with current or recent SARS-CoV-2 infection in the context of the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, the limited evidence supporting delays to surgery, and the need for more research in this area.
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spelling pubmed-89070262022-03-10 Can patients with asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection safely undergo elective surgery? Glasbey, James C. Dobbs, Thomas D. Abbott, Tom E.F. Br J Anaesth Editorial Current or recent infection with SARS-CoV-2 increases the risk of perioperative morbidity and mortality. Consensus guidelines recommend delaying elective major surgery after acute SARS-CoV-2 infection for 7 or 8 weeks. However, because of the growing backlog of untreated surgical disease and the potential risks of delaying surgery, surgical services may be under pressure to reduce this period. Here, we discuss the risks and benefits of delaying surgery for patients with current or recent SARS-CoV-2 infection in the context of the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, the limited evidence supporting delays to surgery, and the need for more research in this area. British Journal of Anaesthesia. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022-06 2022-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8907026/ /pubmed/35369990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bja.2022.03.003 Text en © 2022 British Journal of Anaesthesia. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 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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