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14 lip 2020 · Patients with planned elective surgery will be required to isolate for 2 weeks and wherever possible, test negative for COVID-19 within 72 hours of admission. Procedures will be postponed until full recovery in those with active infection.
12 maj 2020 · A global expert response study was conducted to elicit projections for the proportion of elective surgery that would be cancelled or postponed during the 12 weeks of peak disruption. A Bayesian β-regression model was used to estimate 12-week cancellation rates for 190 countries.
Our study aimed to determine if complication rates increase when proceeding with elective surgery in children early (14–27 days) after diagnosis of COVID-19. We found no difference in intraoperative, immediately postoperative, or postadmission complications between the “early” and “late” groups.
As health-care systems worldwide scrambled to cope with the first wave of COVID-19, many countries made the necessary decision to cancel all non-emergency surgical procedures to free up personnel and resources to care for patients with COVID-19.
Elective cancer surgery in COVID-19-free surgical pathways during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: an international, multicenter, comparative cohort study
14 lip 2020 · Estimates suggest that over 40 000 elective operations would be cancelled in the UK per week during the 12-week peak; based on the average cost of £4000 per operation, it will cost more than £2 billion to clear the backlog 1, not accounting for the cost incurred due to increased morbidity associated with longer waiting times.
9 mar 2021 · Adjusted 30-day postoperative mortality rates in patients with pre-operative SARS-CoV-2 infection stratified by COVID-19 symptoms. The time-periods relate to the timing of surgery following the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
