Author:
Omer Ahmad AbdulAzeem Abdullah
Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a serious global pandemic that has extremely affected health-care systems. This article aimed to review the perspectives of general surgical practice during the COVID-19 pandemic. A systematic review of the literature addressing modification to general surgical practice during the COVID-19 pandemic indexed in PubMed, Scopus, Google, and Google scholar was carried out on June 19–20, 2020. The literature review yielded 577 articles. The exclusion of duplication, articles not in English, and specialized ones in various surgical disciplines precluded 398 articles. Finally, following checking for relevance and publication status, 114 papers were included. Recommendations for surgical practice during the COVID-19 pandemic revolved around mitigation of the risk of virus transmission to patients and health-care workers. The emerging themes of safety precautions were related to patient prioritization and testing, mindful consideration of the operative strategy, optimum use of personal protective equipment, operative room setup, and departmental organization. However, those recommendations were often diverging and bore on a dearth of evidence and personal opinions. Multidisciplinary work and cooperation among surgical specialties are required to establish and validate the protocols for safe surgical practice during the pandemic and perhaps similar crises in future. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought several challenges to the field of medicine, including the surgical specialty. The centrality of safety precautions emerging in this crisis requires surgeons to adopt the new roles and work standards and translate them into practice during the pandemic and perhaps longer.
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