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Surgery and COVID‐19: Balancing the nosocomial risk a french academic center experience during the epidemic peak

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Editor The COVID-19 outbreak greatly impacted surgical activities. Restrictions were imposed globally based on precautionary principle. Little is known of the nosocomial risk for COVID-negative patients undergoing surgery, nor the… Click to show full abstract

Editor The COVID-19 outbreak greatly impacted surgical activities. Restrictions were imposed globally based on precautionary principle. Little is known of the nosocomial risk for COVID-negative patients undergoing surgery, nor the risk of operating on COVID patients during the epidemic1. We reviewed patients who underwent surgery in an academic hospital in the particularly affected Paris area during the 4 initial weeks of surgical restrictions, encompassing the epidemic peak.

Keywords: surgery covid; risk; epidemic peak; covid; nosocomial risk

Journal Title: British Journal of Surgery
Year Published: 2020

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