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Digital communication platforms in cardiothoracic surgery during COVID-19 pandemic: keeping us connected or isolated?

During the COVID-19 pandemic, performing a surgeon’s duties has become challenging while adhering to social distancing mandates. To aid in the continuity of healthcare services, rapid implementation of digital communication tools became a necessity. This is an account of experiences using digital co...

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Autores principales: Naruka, Vinci, Zientara, Alicja, Hussein, Nabil, Punjabi, Prakash P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9047224/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35403678
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icvts/ivac078
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description During the COVID-19 pandemic, performing a surgeon’s duties has become challenging while adhering to social distancing mandates. To aid in the continuity of healthcare services, rapid implementation of digital communication tools became a necessity. This is an account of experiences using digital communication platforms, namely Microsoft Teams and Zoom, for clinical and educative purposes in the field of Cardiothoracic Surgery in the UK. While enabling ongoing virtual clinical meetings, conferences and learning opportunities for residents with little face-to-face contact, are these digital communication platforms keeping us connected or isolated?
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spelling pubmed-90472242022-04-28 Digital communication platforms in cardiothoracic surgery during COVID-19 pandemic: keeping us connected or isolated? Naruka, Vinci Zientara, Alicja Hussein, Nabil Punjabi, Prakash P Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg Resident's Corner During the COVID-19 pandemic, performing a surgeon’s duties has become challenging while adhering to social distancing mandates. To aid in the continuity of healthcare services, rapid implementation of digital communication tools became a necessity. This is an account of experiences using digital communication platforms, namely Microsoft Teams and Zoom, for clinical and educative purposes in the field of Cardiothoracic Surgery in the UK. While enabling ongoing virtual clinical meetings, conferences and learning opportunities for residents with little face-to-face contact, are these digital communication platforms keeping us connected or isolated? Oxford University Press 2022-04-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9047224/ /pubmed/35403678 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icvts/ivac078 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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title Digital communication platforms in cardiothoracic surgery during COVID-19 pandemic: keeping us connected or isolated?
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title_fullStr Digital communication platforms in cardiothoracic surgery during COVID-19 pandemic: keeping us connected or isolated?
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title_short Digital communication platforms in cardiothoracic surgery during COVID-19 pandemic: keeping us connected or isolated?
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