The provision of a time-critical elective surgical service during the COVID-19 Crisis: a UK experience | Zendy

Eleanor Burden | Zendy; R. Walker | Zendy; D. B. Ferguson | Zendy; AMF Goubran | Zendy; JR Howell | Zendy; JB John | Zendy; Fasihul Khan | Zendy; JS McGrath | Zendy; Jonathan P Evans | Zendy

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The provision of a time-critical elective surgical service during the COVID-19 Crisis: a UK experience

Author(s) -

Eleanor Burden,

R. Walker,

D. B. Ferguson,

AMF Goubran,

JR Howell,

JB John,

Fasihul Khan,

JS McGrath,

Jonathan P 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.

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