Laparoscopy at all costs? Not now during COVID-19 outbreak and not for acute care surgery and emergency colorectal surgery: A practical algorithm from a hub tertiary teaching hospital in Northern Lombardy, Italy

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of General Surgery (S.D.S., G.I., E.Z., G.C.), University of Insubria, University Hospital of Varese, ASST Sette Laghi, Regione Lombardia, Italy; Digestive Diseases Department (M.K.), Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals, Brighton, United Kingdom; General Surgery Unit (F.P.), Nicola Giannettasio Hospital, Corigliano-Rossano, Italy; and Département de Chirurgie Viscérale (Bariatrique & Métabolique, Oncologique, et d'Urgence)(B.D.S.), Centre Hospitalier Poissy/Saint-Germain, France.

Salomone Di Saverio et al. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2020 Jun.

. 2020 Jun;88(6):715-718.

doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000002727.

¹ From the Department of General Surgery (S.D.S., G.I., E.Z., G.C.), University of Insubria, University Hospital of Varese, ASST Sette Laghi, Regione Lombardia, Italy; Digestive Diseases Department (M.K.), Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals, Brighton, United Kingdom; General Surgery Unit (F.P.), Nicola Giannettasio Hospital, Corigliano-Rossano, Italy; and Département de Chirurgie Viscérale (Bariatrique & Métabolique, Oncologique, et d'Urgence)(B.D.S.), Centre Hospitalier Poissy/Saint-Germain, France.

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Emergency laparoscopic surgery during COVID-19: What can we do and how to do it safely.
Amore Bonapasta S, Santoni S, Cisano C. Amore Bonapasta S, et al. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2020 Aug;89(2):275-276. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000002784. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2020. PMID: 32404632 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
In response to: Laparoscopic surgery and the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: A word from a different hymn sheet.
Tebala GD, Lami M, Bond-Smith G. Tebala GD, et al. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2020 Oct;89(4):e121. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000002843. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2020. PMID: 32618962 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
The COVID-19 pandemic should not take us back to the prelaparoscopic era.
Botteri E, Podda M, Sartori A. Botteri E, et al. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2020 Aug;89(2):273-274. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000002783. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2020. PMID: 32740638 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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