Sharing strategies for safe delivery of surgical care for children in the COVID-19 Era

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address: Martha.ingram1@northwestern.edu.
² Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston TX, USA.
³ Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
⁴ Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁵ Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, UCSF East Bay, Oakland, CA, USA.
⁶ Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Nemours Al duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, USA.

Martha-Conley E Ingram et al. J Pediatr Surg. 2021 Jan.

. 2021 Jan;56(1):196-198.

doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2020.11.010. Epub 2020 Nov 13.

¹ Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address: Martha.ingram1@northwestern.edu.
² Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston TX, USA.
³ Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
⁴ Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁵ Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, UCSF East Bay, Oakland, CA, USA.
⁶ Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Nemours Al duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Covid-19 pandemic; Pediatric surgery; Perioperative surgical practices; Quality and safety.

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