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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SURGERY
Volume 79, Issue -, Pages 168-179Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2020.05.002
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Novel coronavirus; COVID-19; Surgery
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The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in over 4.5 million confirmed cases and over 300,000 deaths. The impact of COVID-19 on surgical practice is widespread, ranging from workforce and staffing issues, procedural prioritisation, viral transmission risk intraoperatively, changes to perioperative practice and ways of working alongside the impact on surgical education and training. Whilst there has been a growing literature base describing the early clinical course of COVID-19 and on aspects of critical care related to treating these patients, there has been a dearth of evidence on how this pandemic will affect surgical practice. This paper seeks to review the current evidence and offers recommendations for changes to surgical practice to minimise the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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