Surgical activity during the Covid-19 pandemic: Results for 112 patients in a French tertiary care center, a quality improvement study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

After the emergence of Covid-19 in China, Hubei Province, the epidemic quickly spread to Europe. France was quickly hit and our institution was one of the first French university to receive patients infected with Sars-COV2. The predicted massive influx of patients motivated the cancellation of all elective surgical procedures planned to free hospitalization beds and to free intensive care beds. Nevertheless, we should properly select patients who will be canceled to avoid life-threatening. The retained surgical indications are surgical emergencies, oncologic surgery, and organ transplantation.

Material and methods

We describe the organization of our institution which allows the continuation of these surgical activities while limiting the exposure of our patients t

SUBMITTER: Philouze P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7368406 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature