102895

Recommendations for oncological surgical practice in COVID-19 pandemics: a review of literature

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Tags

General Surgery.

Abstract

While the whole world is gaining more and more achievements and progression in several fields, a corona pandemic comes to brake this progress and find us lacking many crucial points. One of these points is to have an emergency protocol for performing different types of surgery in such pandemic states. This led to floundering in surgical decisions for many patients. This review summarizes some recommendations for performing surgeries, especially oncological surgery in the corona pandemic. As a general protection measure, all surgical patients and medical staff must complete preoperative screening whatever symptomatic or not. The medical staff should comply with the regulations of the health facilities to decrease the viral transmission between the medical staff themselves and their patients. Moreover, correct protective apparel (goggles, visor, mask, and protective bodysuit) must be routine. When dealing with a suspected case or a diagnosed patient, tertiary dress code, increasing the operative room ventilation, and installing air purification equipment should be applied. In conclusion, elective surgeries are recommended to be discontinued to avoid patients' and health professionals' morbidity and mortality. Emergency and oncological surgeries to be performed with extreme precautions.

DOI

10.21608/smj.2020.32022.1164

Keywords

corona, Surgery, oncological, recommndations, guidlines

Authors

First Name

Emad Ali

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Surgery department, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Egypt

Email

dr.emadali@hotmail.com

City

Sohag

Orcid

0000-0003-4384-0934

Volume

24

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

11002

Issue Date

2020-04-01

Receive Date

2020-06-07

Publish Date

2020-06-16

Page Start

63

Page End

68

Print ISSN

1687-8353

Online ISSN

2682-4159

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https://smj.journals.ekb.eg/article_102895.html

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Original Article

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785

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Sohag Medical Journal

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https://smj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Recommendations for oncological surgical practice in COVID-19 pandemics: a review of literature

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Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023