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Elective surgeries during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: Case burden and physician shortage concerns

The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on several aspects of global healthcare systems, particularly surgical services. New guidelines, resource scarcity, and an ever-increasing demand for care have posed challenges to healthcare professionals, resulting in the cancellation of many surgeries...

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Autores principales: Mehta, Aashna, Awuah, Wireko Andrew, Ng, Jyi Cheng, Kundu, Mrinmoy, Yarlagadda, Rohan, Sen, Meghdeep, Nansubuga, Esther Patience, Abdul-Rahman, Toufik, Hasan, Mohammad Mehedi
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Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9388274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35999832
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104395
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author Mehta, Aashna
Awuah, Wireko Andrew
Ng, Jyi Cheng
Kundu, Mrinmoy
Yarlagadda, Rohan
Sen, Meghdeep
Nansubuga, Esther Patience
Abdul-Rahman, Toufik
Hasan, Mohammad Mehedi
author_facet Mehta, Aashna
Awuah, Wireko Andrew
Ng, Jyi Cheng
Kundu, Mrinmoy
Yarlagadda, Rohan
Sen, Meghdeep
Nansubuga, Esther Patience
Abdul-Rahman, Toufik
Hasan, Mohammad Mehedi
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description The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on several aspects of global healthcare systems, particularly surgical services. New guidelines, resource scarcity, and an ever-increasing demand for care have posed challenges to healthcare professionals, resulting in the cancellation of many surgeries, with short and long-term consequences for surgical care and patient outcomes. As the pandemic subsides and the healthcare system attempts to reestablish a sense of normalcy, surgical recommendations and advisories will shift. These changes, combined with a growing case backlog (postponed surgeries + regularly scheduled surgeries) and a physician shortage, can have serious consequences for physician health and, as a result, surgical care. Several initiatives are already being implemented by governments to ensure a smooth transition as surgeries resume. Newer and more efficient steps aimed at providing adequate surgical care while preventing physician burnout, on the other hand, necessitate a collaborative effort from governments, national medical boards, institutions, and healthcare professionals. This perspective aims to highlight alterations in surgical recommendations over the course of the pandemic and how these changes continue to influence surgical care and patient outcomes as the pandemic begins to soften its grip.
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spelling pubmed-93882742022-08-19 Elective surgeries during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: Case burden and physician shortage concerns Mehta, Aashna Awuah, Wireko Andrew Ng, Jyi Cheng Kundu, Mrinmoy Yarlagadda, Rohan Sen, Meghdeep Nansubuga, Esther Patience Abdul-Rahman, Toufik Hasan, Mohammad Mehedi Ann Med Surg (Lond) Review The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on several aspects of global healthcare systems, particularly surgical services. New guidelines, resource scarcity, and an ever-increasing demand for care have posed challenges to healthcare professionals, resulting in the cancellation of many surgeries, with short and long-term consequences for surgical care and patient outcomes. As the pandemic subsides and the healthcare system attempts to reestablish a sense of normalcy, surgical recommendations and advisories will shift. These changes, combined with a growing case backlog (postponed surgeries + regularly scheduled surgeries) and a physician shortage, can have serious consequences for physician health and, as a result, surgical care. Several initiatives are already being implemented by governments to ensure a smooth transition as surgeries resume. Newer and more efficient steps aimed at providing adequate surgical care while preventing physician burnout, on the other hand, necessitate a collaborative effort from governments, national medical boards, institutions, and healthcare professionals. This perspective aims to highlight alterations in surgical recommendations over the course of the pandemic and how these changes continue to influence surgical care and patient outcomes as the pandemic begins to soften its grip. Elsevier 2022-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9388274/ /pubmed/35999832 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104395 Text en © 2022 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of IJS Publishing Group Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Awuah, Wireko Andrew
Ng, Jyi Cheng
Kundu, Mrinmoy
Yarlagadda, Rohan
Sen, Meghdeep
Nansubuga, Esther Patience
Abdul-Rahman, Toufik
Hasan, Mohammad Mehedi
Elective surgeries during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: Case burden and physician shortage concerns
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title_fullStr Elective surgeries during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: Case burden and physician shortage concerns
title_full_unstemmed Elective surgeries during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: Case burden and physician shortage concerns
title_short Elective surgeries during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: Case burden and physician shortage concerns
title_sort elective surgeries during and after the covid-19 pandemic: case burden and physician shortage concerns
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9388274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35999832
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104395
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