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Practice Guideline
. 2020 Dec;98(10):574-581.
doi: 10.1016/j.ciresp.2020.08.005. Epub 2020 Sep 3.

Recommendations for acting in elective and urgent thoracic surgery during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Spanish Society of Thoracic Surgery

[Article in English, Spanish]
José R Jarabo  1 , Néstor Martínez  2 , Alberto Cabañero  3 , Sergi Call  4 , José L Campo-Cañaveral  5 , Ángel Cilleruelo  6 , Usue Caballero  3 , Andrés Obeso  7 , José L Recuero  8 , Sebastián Sevilla  9 , Florentino Hernando  10
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Practice Guideline

Recommendations for acting in elective and urgent thoracic surgery during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Spanish Society of Thoracic Surgery

[Article in English, Spanish]
José R Jarabo et al. Cir Esp (Engl Ed). 2020 Dec.

Abstract
in English, Spanish

Expansion of the pandemic produced by new coronavirus SATS-CoV-2 has made healthcare focused on patients with COVID-19 disease, leading to discontinue most of elective surgical procedures. Being thoracic surgery eminently oncological, an optimal triage of patients amenable to be safely operated on is mandatory. Moreover, severe pulmonary involvement by COVID-19 causes complications frequently needing urgent thoracic surgical procedures under a new context. The Spanish Society of Thoracic Surgery (SECT) has developed this document to establish basic recommendations to keep up essential elective surgical activity and to guide surgeons facing thoracic urgencies in this new and unknown environment.

La expansión de la pandemia producida por el nuevo coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 ha obligado a focalizar casi toda la asistencia sanitaria en pacientes con enfermedad COVID-19, obligando a suspender la mayoría de intervenciones quirúrgicas electivas programadas. La cirugía torácica es eminentemente oncológica, por lo que resulta obligada una adecuada priorización de los pacientes para ser intervenidos lo antes posible y en condiciones de máxima seguridad. Por otra parte, la afectación pulmonar grave COVID-19 presenta complicaciones que con frecuencia requieren procedimientos quirúrgicos torácicos urgentes en un contexto nuevo. La Sociedad Española de Cirugía Torácica (SECT) ha desarrollado este documento para establecer unas recomendaciones básicas para mantener la actividad quirúrgica electiva imprescindible y para orientar a los cirujanos que deban afrontar urgencias torácicas en este nuevo y desconocido entorno.

Keywords: COVID-19; Cirugía torácica; Recomendaciones; Recommendations; SARS-CoV-2; Safety; Seguridad; Thoracic surgery.

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