Triaging Spine Surgery and Treatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic
| Autor: | Andrew Clavenna, Ishaq Y. Syed, James M. Rizkalla, Andrew Dossett, William Hotchkiss |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Infectious disease
030222 orthopedics medicine.medical_specialty 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak Pandemic Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) business.industry Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) COVID-19 030229 sport sciences Guideline Common procedures Article Spine Spinal surgery Coronavirus 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Spine surgery medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Intensive care medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Orthopaedics |
| ISSN: | 0972-978X |
| Popis: | Objective To utilize evidence-based medicine to help determine guidelines for spinal surgery during the Covid-19 era. Methods A literature review was performed of peer-reviewed articles focused on indications for common procedures in spine surgery. Based on these indications, we sub-categorized these procedures into elective, urgent and emergent categories. Case examples provided. Results Indications for spinal surgery were reviewed based on current literature and categorized. This manuscript presents a decision-making algorithm to help provide a guideline for determining the appropriateness of proceeding with spinal surgery during this COVID-19 time period. Conclusions Spinal surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic is an intricate challenging decision-making process, involving clinical, sociologic and economic factors. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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