학술논문
Cardiothoracic surgery in the midst of a pandemic: Operative outcomes and maintaining a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)–free environment
Document Type
Article
Author
Balmforth, Damian; Yates, Martin T.; Lau, Kelvin; Hussain, Azhar; Lopez-Marco, Ana; Edmondson, Stephen; Oo, Aung; Uppal, Rakesh; Sepehripour, A.; Lall, K.; Roberts, N.; Di Salvo, C.; Kolvekar, S.; Wong, K.; Ambekar, S.; Sheikh, A.; Adams, B.; Yap, J.; Lawrence, D.; Awad, W.; Shipolini, A.; Rathwell, C.; Rahnavardi, Mohamed; Stamenkovic, Steven; Waller, David; Wilson, Henrietta; Al-Sahaf, May
Source
JTCVS Open; December 2020, Vol. 4 Issue: 1 p107-114, 8p
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ISSN
26662736
Abstract
In the United Kingdom, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to the cessation of elective surgery. However, there remains a need to provide urgent and emergency cardiac and thoracic surgery as well as to continue time-critical thoracic cancer surgery. This study describes our early experience of implementing a protocol to safely deliver major cardiac and thoracic surgery in the midst of the pandemic.