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. 2020:6:24.
doi: 10.1051/sicotj/2020022. Epub 2020 Jul 1.

COVID-19. An update for orthopedic surgeons

Mohammad Kamal Abdelnasser  1 , Mohamed Morsy  1 , Ahmed E Osman  1 , Ayman F AbdelKawi  1 , Mahmoud Fouad Ibrahim  1 , Amr Eisa  1 , Amr A Fadle  1 , Amr Hatem  1 , Mohammed Anter Abdelhameed  1 , Ahmed Abdelazim A Hassan  1 , Ahmed Shawky Abdelgawaad  2
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COVID-19. An update for orthopedic surgeons

Mohammad Kamal Abdelnasser et al. SICOT J. 2020.

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected our world in a short period of time, and the orthopedic surgery practice was not an exclusion. Elective care was deferred in most health care facilities and emergency care was continued with strict precautions. With rapid progression of the pandemic, the response of the medical community is also rapidly changing in all aspects of delivering care. This led to a large number of publications with reports, guidelines, measures, ways to react to the crisis, and post-pandemic predictions and speculations. In this review we aimed at summarizing all the relevant information to the orthopedic surgery community. To do this, a comprehensive search was performed with all related terms on two scientific search engines, PubMed and SCOPUS, and the results were filtered by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) method. The result was 72 articles that were further reduced to 33 articles after full text reading. The resultant information was organized under 5 main headings; the impact of pandemic on the orthopedic practice, COVID-19 and the trauma patient, elective and emergency surgeries during the pandemic, peri-operative management of the patient with COVID-19, Miscellaneous effects of the pandemic such as those on training programs and the evolution of telemedicine. This review represents the most up to date information published in the literature that is a must-know to every orthopedic surgeon.

Keywords: COVID-19; Orthopaedics.

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The PRISMA flow chart employed showing the article selection process for the review.
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Suggested Flowchart for dealing with orthopaedic and Trauma cases during the period of the COVID-19 Pandemic. *Defining the urgency of the condition is multifactorial and differs according to the institution, resources and patient characteristics (see text). **The emergency patients stay postoperatively in the Isolation Ward till available test results for COVID-19 Infection.
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