Stefano Puliatti1,2,3, Ahmed Eissa1,4, Radwa Eissa5, Marco Amato1,2, Elio Mazzone6, Paolo Dell'Oglio6, Maria Chiara Sighinolfi1, Ahmed Zoeir1,4, Salvatore Micali1, Giampaolo Bianchi1, Vipul Patel7, Peter Wiklund8, Rafael F Coelho9, Jean-Christophe Bernhard10, Prokar Dasgupta11,12, Alexandre Mottrie2,3, Bernardo Rocco1. 1. Urology Department, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy. 2. ORSI Academy, Melle, Belgium. 3. Department of Urology, Onze Lieve Vrouw Hospital, Aalst, Belgium. 4. Urology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt. 5. Microbiology and Virology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt. 6. Department of Urology, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy. 7. Global Robotics Institute, Florida Hospital-Celebration Health Celebration, University of Central Florida School of Medicine, Orlando, FL, USA. 8. Department of Urology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. 9. Department of urology, Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo (ICESP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil. 10. Chirurgie Urologique, CHU de Bordeaux, France. 11. Department of Urology, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's Health Partners, London, UK. 12. MRC Centre for Transplantation, King's College London, King's Health Partners, London, UK.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To discuss the impact of COVID-19 on global health, particularly on urological practice and to review some of the available recommendations reported in the literature. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In the current narrative review the PubMed database was searched to identify all the related reports discussing the impact of COVID-19 on the urological field. RESULTS: The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest and biggest global health threat. Medical and surgical priorities have changed dramatically to cope with the current challenge. These changes include postponements of all elective outpatient visits and surgical procedures to save facilities and resources for urgent cases and patients with COVID-19 patients. This review discuss some of the related changes in urology. CONCLUSIONS: Over the coming weeks, healthcare workers including urologists will be facing increasingly difficult challenges, and consequently, they should adopt triage strategy to avoid wasting of medical resources and they should endorse sufficient protection policies to guard against infection when dealing with COVID-19 patients.
OBJECTIVE: To discuss the impact of COVID-19 on global health, particularly on urological practice and to review some of the available recommendations reported in the literature. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In the current narrative review the PubMed database was searched to identify all the related reports discussing the impact of COVID-19 on the urological field. RESULTS: The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest and biggest global health threat. Medical and surgical priorities have changed dramatically to cope with the current challenge. These changes include postponements of all elective outpatient visits and surgical procedures to save facilities and resources for urgent cases and patients with COVID-19patients. This review discuss some of the related changes in urology. CONCLUSIONS: Over the coming weeks, healthcare workers including urologists will be facing increasingly difficult challenges, and consequently, they should adopt triage strategy to avoid wasting of medical resources and they should endorse sufficient protection policies to guard against infection when dealing with COVID-19patients.
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