Towards a full capacity of anaesthesia and surgical services in the epicenter (Wuhan) of the COVID-19 epidemic

J Wu¹, S Yao^{1

2}, R Liu³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology, Institute of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
² Anaesthesia Quality Control Centre of Hubei, Hubei, China.
³ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

J Wu et al. Br J Surg. 2021.

. 2021 Jan 27;108(1):e1-e2.

doi: 10.1093/bjs/znaa044.

J Wu¹, S Yao^{1

2}, R Liu³

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology, Institute of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
² Anaesthesia Quality Control Centre of Hubei, Hubei, China.
³ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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