| Literature DB >> 32551151 |
Hayrettin Levent Mavioğlu1, Ertekin Utku Ünal1, Göktan Aşkın1, Şeref Alp Küçüker1, Mehmet Ali Özatik1.
Abstract
Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is a serious health concern which alert all healthcare professionals worldwide. There are two main issues caused by this pandemic regarding for the healthcare system. First, it is a necessity to postpone many elective procedures/surgeries to reduce the burden of the healthcare system which may be confronted with strain by the increased speed of transmission. Therefore, we aimed to develop an algorithm called as Level of Priority to identify the priority and deferrability of cardiovascular diseases requiring surgery. Second, it is essential to perform surgery and intensive care unit follow-up in a setting where the infection prevention measures are followed for primary patients requiring emergency cardiovascular surgery. In this article, we present necessary precautions to be exercised to provide the patient safety and the highest level of protection for the surgical team.Entities:
Keywords: Cardiovascular surgical procedures; covid-19; pandemic; personal protective equipment
Year: 2020 PMID: 32551151 PMCID: PMC7298362 DOI: 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2020.09294
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Turk Gogus Kalp Damar Cerrahisi Derg ISSN: 1301-5680 Impact factor: 0.332