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Review
. 2020 Apr 3;28(2):236-243.
doi: 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2020.09294. eCollection 2019 Jun.

Perioperative planning for cardiovascular operations in the COVID-19 pandemic

Hayrettin Levent Mavioğlu  1 , Ertekin Utku Ünal  1 , Göktan Aşkın  1 , Şeref Alp Küçüker  1 , Mehmet Ali Özatik  1
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Review

Perioperative planning for cardiovascular operations in the COVID-19 pandemic

Hayrettin Levent Mavioğlu et al. Turk Gogus Kalp Damar Cerrahisi Derg. .

Abstract

Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is a serious health concern which alert all healthcare professionals worldwide. There are two main issues caused by this pandemic regarding for the healthcare system. First, it is a necessity to postpone many elective procedures/surgeries to reduce the burden of the healthcare system which may be confronted with strain by the increased speed of transmission. Therefore, we aimed to develop an algorithm called as Level of Priority to identify the priority and deferrability of cardiovascular diseases requiring surgery. Second, it is essential to perform surgery and intensive care unit follow-up in a setting where the infection prevention measures are followed for primary patients requiring emergency cardiovascular surgery. In this article, we present necessary precautions to be exercised to provide the patient safety and the highest level of protection for the surgical team.

Keywords: Cardiovascular surgical procedures; covid-19; pandemic; personal protective equipment.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest: The authors declared no conflicts of interest with respect to the authorship and/or publication of this article.

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Figure 1. Algorithm of cardiovascular surgery patients in COVID-19 pandemic
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Figure 2. Personal protection equipment during surgery
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Comment in

  • Vascular surgery in the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Ünal EU, Mavioğlu HL, İscan HZ. Ünal EU, et al. J Vasc Surg. 2020 Aug;72(2):752-754. doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2020.04.480. Epub 2020 Apr 25. J Vasc Surg. 2020. PMID: 32344111 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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