The impact of COVID-19 on the surgical operations

In the time span of 4 months, everything has changed in the life. The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has laid waste to the daily routines we practiced automatically. The most basic assumptions of how we plan our day, and how we practice medicine are gone, and in their place we socially isolate, and we split shifts to decrease exposure. The global impact of this invisible virus is terrifying, and we as physicians and healthcare providers are on the front lines of this war, confronting our own mortality as we continually strategize to protect our patients. We have partnered with our colleagues in infectious disease, respiratory medicine, public health, and administrators to learn quickly, adapt our personal and institutional practice, and adopt policies to allow a new best practice, conserve personal protective equipment (PPE), and save our patients and ourselves. One of the main fields that is affected promptly by this virus is the surgery with its all fields and specialties as most policies within the outbreak recommends decreasing the surgical activity by cease the elective operation and maintain only the emergency surgical cases.

• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano
• Repositorio: Expeditio: repositorio UTadeo
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:expeditiorepositorio.utadeo.edu.co:20.500.12010/15247
• Acceso en línea: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2049080120301941?via%3Dihub; http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12010/15247; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2020.06.042
• Palabra clave: Surgery; Jordan; Emergency; Síndrome respiratorio agudo grave; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Coronavirus
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