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. 2021 Jun;31(6):730-732.
doi: 10.1111/pan.14191. Epub 2021 Apr 27.

Anesthesia and surgery for positive COVID-19 asymptomatic pediatric patients: How long should we wait?

Giuliana Geng-Ramos  1 , Jessica Cronin  1 , Chaitanya Challa  1 , Marjorie Brennan  1 , Andrew Matisoff  1 , Meghan Delaney  2 , Joseph Campos  2 , Sohel Rana  3 , Brenna Wyson  4 , Sophie Pestieau  1
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Anesthesia and surgery for positive COVID-19 asymptomatic pediatric patients: How long should we wait?

Giuliana Geng-Ramos et al. Paediatr Anaesth. 2021 Jun.
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FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Ct values of persistently positive COVID‐19 patients over time. Day 0 is the initial test 24–48 h prior to procedure date. SARS‐CoV‐2 PRC assays included AllPlex™ 2019‐nCoV Assay (Seegene, Inc., Seoul, South Korea), the Xpert® Xpress SARS‐CoV‐2, Cepheid, Sunnyvale, CA), and the Simplexa™ COVID‐19 Direct assay (DiaSorin Molecular LLC, Cypress, CA). A trend line was created using Locally Estimated Scatterplot Smoothing method. The shaded region is the 95% confidence interval around the mean [Colour figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]
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