Surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada. Electronic address: shanthh@mcmaster.ca.
² Department of Anesthesia, Pain Management, and Perioperative Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.

Comment

Harsha Shanthanna et al. Lancet. 2020.

. 2020 Nov 7;396(10261):e74.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32279-0.

¹ Department of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada. Electronic address: shanthh@mcmaster.ca.
² Department of Anesthesia, Pain Management, and Perioperative Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.

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Surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic - Authors' reply.
COVIDSurg Collaborative. COVIDSurg Collaborative. Lancet. 2020 Nov 7;396(10261):e79. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32275-3. Lancet. 2020. PMID: 33160579 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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