• Lee Squitieri and Kevin C Chung.
• From the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California; and the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School.
• Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 2020 Aug 1; 146 (2): 437-446.

AbstractThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has confronted the U.S. health care system with unprecedented challenges amidst a tenuous economic environment. As inpatient hospitals across the country prepare for an overwhelming influx of highly contagious COVID-19 cases, many nonemergent procedures have been cancelled or indefinitely postponed without guidance regarding eventual safe accommodation of these procedures in the future. Given the potentially prolonged impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health care use, it is imperative for plastic surgeons to collaborate with other medical and surgical specialties to develop surge capacity protocols that allow continuation of safe, high-quality, nonemergent procedures. The purpose of this article is to provide necessary and timely public health information relevant to plastic surgery and also share a conceptual framework to guide surge capacity protocols for nonemergent surgery.

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