Recommendations for outpatient activity in COVID-19 pandemic
The spread of the COVID-19 disease substantially influenced the International Healthcare system, and the national governments worldwide had before long to decide how to manage the available resources, giving priority to the treatment of the COVID-infected patients. Then, in many countries, it was de...
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Published in | Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 1696 - 1704 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Poland
De Gruyter
09.11.2021
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
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Summary: | The spread of the COVID-19 disease substantially influenced the International Healthcare system, and the national governments worldwide had before long to decide how to manage the available resources, giving priority to the treatment of the COVID-infected patients. Then, in many countries, it was decided to limit the elective procedures to surgical oncology and emergency procedures. In fact, most of the routine, middle-low complexity surgical interventions were reduced, and the day surgery (DS) activities were almost totally interrupted. As a result of this approach, the waiting list of these patients has significantly increased. In the current phase, with a significant decrease in the incidence of COVID-19 cases, the surgical daily activity can be safely and effectively restarted. Adjustments are mandatory to resume the DS activity. The whole separation of pathways with respect to the long-stay and emergency surgery, an accurate preoperative protocol of patient management, with a proper selection and screening of all-day cases, careful scheduling of surgical organization in the operating room, and planning of the postoperative pathway are the goals for a feasible, safe, and effective resumption of DS activity. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 ObjectType-Review-3 content type line 23 Francesco Basile, Ferdinando Campitiello, Silvestro Canonico, Giorgio Celli, Marsilio Francucci, Francesco Gossetti, Vincenzo Maria Greco, Giovanni Francesco Manfredi, Lorenzo Mannino, Salvatore Massa, Claudio Nazzaro, Mauro Patiti, Davide Pozzobon, Mariuccia Rizzuto, Giuseppe Silvestre, Angelo Sorge, Maurizio Verga, Roberto Dino Villani, Vincenzo Vittorini, Guido Zanghì. |
ISSN: | 2391-5463 2391-5463 |
DOI: | 10.1515/med-2021-0378 |