Neurosurgeons and the fight with COVID-19: a position statement from the EANS Individual Membership Committee

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.
² Department of Neurosurgery and Neuro-oncology, 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University, Central Military Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic.
³ Department of Neurosurgery, Haaglanden Medical Center, The Hague, & Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ Department of Neurosurgery, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy.
⁶ Department of Neurosurgery, Dar Al Shifa Hospital, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
⁷ Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
⁸ Department of Neurosurgery, Istanbul Medeniyet University Göztepe Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁹ Department of Neurosurgery, Paras Hospital, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.
¹⁰ Department of Neurosurgery, Paracelsus-Klinik, Osnabrück, Germany.
¹¹ Department of Neurosurgery, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. hclusmann@ukaachen.de.

Editorial

Mario Ganau et al. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2020 Aug.

. 2020 Aug;162(8):1777-1782.

doi: 10.1007/s00701-020-04360-3. Epub 2020 May 29.

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.
² Department of Neurosurgery and Neuro-oncology, 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University, Central Military Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic.
³ Department of Neurosurgery, Haaglanden Medical Center, The Hague, & Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ Department of Neurosurgery, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy.
⁶ Department of Neurosurgery, Dar Al Shifa Hospital, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
⁷ Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
⁸ Department of Neurosurgery, Istanbul Medeniyet University Göztepe Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁹ Department of Neurosurgery, Paras Hospital, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.
¹⁰ Department of Neurosurgery, Paracelsus-Klinik, Osnabrück, Germany.
¹¹ Department of Neurosurgery, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. hclusmann@ukaachen.de.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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