Kicking on while it's still kicking off - getting surgery and anaesthesia restarted after COVID-19

T M Cook^{1

2}, W Harrop-Griffiths^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Bath, UK.
² University of Bristol, UK.
³ Department of Anaesthesia, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
⁴ Imperial College, London, UK.

Editorial

T M Cook et al. Anaesthesia. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct;75(10):1273-1277.

doi: 10.1111/anae.15128. Epub 2020 Jun 1.

T M Cook^{1

2}, W Harrop-Griffiths^{3

4}

¹ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Bath, UK.
² University of Bristol, UK.
³ Department of Anaesthesia, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
⁴ Imperial College, London, UK.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; peri-operative; surgery.

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