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Elective surgeries in the “new normal” post-COVID-19 pandemic: to test or do not test?

Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões, 2020
The new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has been wreaking havoc all over the planet. In a precautionary measure, populations have been forced and kept under quarantine to contain the outbreak of the COVID-19 disease.
LEONARDO EMILIO SILVA, RICARDO VITOR COHEN, JAIME LUIS LOPES ROCHA, VIVIANE MARIA CARVALHO HASSEL, LUIZ CARLOS VON-BAHTEN   +4 more
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Elective Orthopaedic Surgery During COVID-19

JBJS Open Access, 2020
Background:. The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has greatly changed our way of living and working.
Claudio Zorzi, MD, Gianluca Piovan, MD, Daniele Screpis, MD, Simone Natali, MD, Stefania Marocco, MD, Venanzio Iacono, MD   +5 more
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Surgical Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Plastic Surgery: A RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method Consensus Study

Antibiotics, 2022
For many years, it was clearly shown that surgical procedures might be associated with surgical site infection (SSI). Many scientific institutions prepared guidelines to use in surgery to reduce abuse and misuse of antibiotics.
Susanna Esposito, Rossella Sgarzani, Sonia Bianchini, Sara Monaco, Laura Nicoletti, Erika Rigotti, Marilia Di Pietro, Roberta Opri, Caterina Caminiti, Matilde Ciccia, Giorgio Conti, Daniele Donà, Mario Giuffré, Stefania La Grutta, Laura Lancella, Mario Lima, Andrea Lo Vecchio, Gloria Pelizzo, Giorgio Piacentini, Carlo Pietrasanta, Matteo Puntoni, Alessandro Simonini, Elisabetta Venturini, Annamaria Staiano, Nicola Principi, on behalf of the Peri-Operative Prophylaxis in Neonatal and Paediatric Age (POP-NeoPed) Study Group   +25 more
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Incidence of Surgical Glove Perforations during Surgical Procedures at a Tertiary Care Hospital, Islamabad

Life and Science, 2023
Objective: To determine the rate and patterns of surgical glove perforation during surgical procedures and to compare the rates between emergency and elective surgeries at PIMS, Islamabad. Study Design:  A cross-sectional study.
Hina Idrees, Isbah Rashid, Muhammad Aqib, Sajid Ali Shah, Sana Sharafat Ali, Muhammad Faheem Ahsan, S H Waqar   +6 more
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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on surgical activity in the Brazilian private healthcare system.

PLoS ONE, 2023
IntroductionSurgical volume was drastically reduced in many countries due to challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.ObjectivesWe sought to estimate the number of cancelled surgical and diagnostic procedures within the Brazilian private healthcare ...
Luiza Helena Degani Costa, Barbara Yepes Pereira, Isabela Queiros Castro, Heitor Werneck, Glenio B Mizubuti, Luiz Fernando Dos Reis Falcão   +5 more
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Impact of COVID-19 on Elective Surgical Lists in Otorhinolaryngology: An Overview

Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College, 2021
Objective: To study how the COVID-19 is affecting the treatment and management of other ailments. Try to find a strategy to resume elective OR lists. Introduction: We overviewed the effect of COVID-19 on the elective surgical lists of otorhinolaryngology
Memon Afzal, Tabassum Aziz, Nausheen Qureshi, Sundas Masood, Fatima Shahid, Asmara Hussain   +5 more
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Incidence and features of preoperative anxiety in patients undergoing elective non-cardiac surgery

Acta Medica Lituanica, 2019
The study was conducted at the Centre of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Management of Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos. Background.
Vilma Kuzminskaitė, Justina Kaklauskaitė, Justė Petkevičiūtė   +2 more
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How many operating rooms are needed to manage non-elective surgical cases? A Monte Carlo simulation study. [PDF]

, 2015
BackgroundPatients often wait to have urgent or emergency surgery. The number of operating rooms (ORs) needed to minimize waiting time while optimizing resources can be determined using queuing theory and computer simulation.
Antognini, Joseph F, Antognini, Joseph M O'Brien, Khatri, Vijay   +2 more
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Elective reconstruction of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm type IV by transabdominal approach [PDF]

Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2012
Introduction. Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA) type IV represents an aortic dilatation from the level of the diaphragmatic hiatus to the iliac arteries branches, including visceral branches of the aorta.
Marjanović Ivan, Jevtić Miodrag, Mišović Sidor, Šarac Momir   +3 more
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Prevalence of pre-operative anxiety and associated risk factors among patients awaiting elective surgery in a tertiary care hospital [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

F1000Research, 2023
Background Patients undergoing surgery have a fear of anesthesia and surgical procedures that results in anxiety. The global incidence of pre-operative anxiety is estimated at 60–92%.
Bhuwan Ghimire, Sunil Baniya, Suman Prasad Adhikari, Bishnu Deep Pathak, Om Prakash Tandon, Nabin Simkhada, Indra Dev Pathak, Laxmi Regmi, Bishal Dhakal, Namrata Mahara Rawal, Prawesh Adhikari, Aakanksha Rana, Prabhas Joshi, Pooja Kafle   +13 more
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