Open AccessThe provision of a time-critical elective surgical service during the COVID-19 Crisis: a UK experience
Author(s) -
Eleanor Burden,
R. Walker,
David Ferguson,
Amf Goubran,
Jonathan Howell,
Joseph B John,
Fasihul Khan,
John McGrath,
Jonathan Evans
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annals of the royal college of surgeons of england
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.39
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1478-7083
pISSN - 0035-8843
DOI - 10.1308/rcsann.2020.7023
Subject(s) - covid-19 , medicine , service (business) , coronavirus infections , betacoronavirus , virology , business , pathology , marketing , outbreak , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, all elective surgery was temporarily suspended in the UK, allowing for diversion of resource to manage the anticipated surge of critically unwell patients. Continuing to deliver time-critical surgical care is important to avoid excess morbidity and mortality from pathologies unrelated to COVID-19. We describe the implementation and short-term surgical outcomes from a system to deliver time-critical elective surgical care to patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.