Robotic surgery can be safely performed for patients and healthcare workers during COVID‐19 pandemic
| Autor: | Katharina Boehm, Axel Haferkamp, Peter Sparwasser, Robert Dotzauer, W. Jäger, Igor Tsaur, Mohammed Kamal Gheith, Rene Mager, Maximillian P Brandt, Hendrik Borgmann, Maximillian Haack, Alexander Ziebart, Thomas Höfner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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safety medicine.medical_specialty Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Health Personnel 610 Medizin coronavirus Biophysics SARS‐CoV‐2 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Robotic Surgical Procedures 610 Medical sciences Health care Pandemic medicine Humans Robotic surgery 030212 general & internal medicine Elective surgery Pandemics Aged Retrospective Studies robotics SARS-CoV-2 business.industry COVID-19 Retrospective cohort study Middle Aged infection Computer Science Applications body regions 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Emergency medicine Female Original Article Surgery business 2019‐nCoV Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | The International Journal of Medical Robotics + Computer Assisted Surgery |
| ISSN: | 1478-596X 1478-5951 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/rcs.2291 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVES: To investigate the safety of robotic surgery during COVID-19 pandemic concerning new-acquired COVID-19 infections for patients and healthcare workers. PATIENTS: We performed a retrospective single-centre cohort study of patients undergoing robotic surgery in initial period of COVID-19 pandemic. Patients and Healthcare workers COVID-19 infection status was assessed by structured telephone follow-up and/or repeated nasopharyngeal swabs. RESULTS: After 61 robotic surgeries (93,5% cancer surgery), 1 patient (1.6%) had COVID-19 infection. 60 healthcare workers cumulatively exposed to 1,187 hours of robotic surgery had no infection. One patient with postoperative proof of SARS-CoV-2 had complete recovery. After this potentially contagious robotic surgery, 8 healthcare workers had no COVID-19 infection after follow-up with each 3 nasopharyngeal swabs. CONCLUSIONS: Early clinical experience of robotic surgery during COVID-19 pandemic shows that robotic surgery can be safely performed for patients and healthcare workers. Despite our results we recommend elective surgery only for verified COVID-19 negative patients. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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