COVID-19 – EKS Guidelines and Recommendations for Resuming Knee Elective Surgery (orthopedics – joint replacement) Restarting surgery in COVID -19 decreasing epidemic (not eradicated)
(2020) 11 pages, published
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- INTRODUCTION : The COVID-19 breakout forced to stop almost all elective surgeries in the affected countries, to reduce the spreading of contagion decreasing the number of patients not needing urgent operations, decreasing the overall affluence of patients and relatives in hospitals, avoiding to operate on affected symptomless patients, and to divert resources for COVID-19 hospitalized patients. In a more advanced period of the epidemic, in some most affected areas, the OR have been transformed in ICU, to exploit the presence of ventilators to assure a sufficient pulmonary and life-saving assistance to the most severely affected patients. [...]
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Benazzo, F., Catani, F., Parratte, S., Thienpont, E., Van Hellemondt, G., Barrett, D., Baldini Andrea, Troelsen, A., Halder, A., Bonnin, M., Victor, J., Dodd, C., & Lustig, S. (2020). COVID-19 – EKS Guidelines and Recommendations for Resuming Knee Elective Surgery (orthopedics – joint replacement) Restarting surgery in COVID -19 decreasing epidemic (not eradicated). European Knee Society. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/121584