Utilizing an office based laboratory (OBL) during the COVID-19 pandemic for vascular surgical patients

COVID-19 pandemic brought new challenges in healthcare including the need to create tiered class recommendations about which types patients to treat urgently and which surgical cases to defer. This is a report of a single center's Office Based Laboratory (OBL) system to prioritize vascular pati...

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Autores principales: Fitzpatrick, Suzanna, Dunlap, Eleanor, Hawkins, Shannon, Nagarsheth, Khanjan, Sarkar, Rajabrata
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Society for Vascular Nursing, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9790873/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36898800
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvn.2022.12.003
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Sumario:COVID-19 pandemic brought new challenges in healthcare including the need to create tiered class recommendations about which types patients to treat urgently and which surgical cases to defer. This is a report of a single center's Office Based Laboratory (OBL) system to prioritize vascular patients and preserve acute care resources and personnel. In reviewing three months of data, it appears that by continuing to provide the urgent care needed for this chronically ill population, the insurmountable backup of surgical procedures is prevented in the operating room once elective surgeries resumed. The OBL was able to continue providing care at the same pre-pandemic rate to a large intercity population.

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