[Emergency Surgery and Trauma Care During COVID-19 Pandemic.

Cirugía española · Oct 2020

[Emergency Surgery and Trauma Care During COVID-19 Pandemic. Recommendations of the Spanish Association of Surgeons].

New coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 infection (coronavirus disease 2019 [COVID-19]) has determined the necessity of reorganization in many centers all over the world. Spain, as an epicenter of the disease, has been forced to assume health policy changes in all the territory. However, and from the beginning of the pandemic, every center attending surgical urgencies had to guarantee the continuous coverage adopting correct measures to maintain the excellence of quality of care. This document resumes general guidelines for emergency surgery and trauma care, obtained from the available bibliography and evaluated by a subgroup of professionals designated from the general group of investigators Cirugía-AEC-COVID-19 from the Spanish Association of Surgeons, directed to minimize professional exposure, to contemplate pandemic implications over different urgent perioperative scenarios and to adjust decision making to the occupational pressure caused by COVID-19 patients.

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- José Manuel Aranda-Narváez, Luis Tallón-Aguilar, Felipe Pareja-Ciuró, Gonzalo Martín-Martín, Antonio Jesús González-Sánchez, Ignacio Rey-Simó, Gonzalo Tamayo-Medel, Carlos Yánez-Benítez, David Costa-Navarro, Soledad Montón-Condón, Salvador Navarro-Soto, Fernando Turégano-Fuentes, María Dolores Pérez-Díaz, José Ceballos-Esparragón, José María Jover-Navalón, José María Balibrea, and Salvador Morales-Conde.
- Servicio de Cirugía, Hospital Regional Universitario, Málaga, España. Electronic address: Josearanda68@telefonica.net.
- Cir Esp. 2020 Oct 1; 98 (8): 433-441.
AbstractNew coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 infection (coronavirus disease 2019 [COVID-19]) has determined the necessity of reorganization in many centers all over the world. Spain, as an epicenter of the disease, has been forced to assume health policy changes in all the territory. However, and from the beginning of the pandemic, every center attending surgical urgencies had to guarantee the continuous coverage adopting correct measures to maintain the excellence of quality of care. This document resumes general guidelines for emergency surgery and trauma care, obtained from the available bibliography and evaluated by a subgroup of professionals designated from the general group of investigators Cirugía-AEC-COVID-19 from the Spanish Association of Surgeons, directed to minimize professional exposure, to contemplate pandemic implications over different urgent perioperative scenarios and to adjust decision making to the occupational pressure caused by COVID-19 patients.© 2020 AEC. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

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