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Review
. 2020 Mar 26;3(1):e000122.
doi: 10.1136/wjps-2020-000122. eCollection 2020.

Prevention and control strategies for emergency, limited-term, and elective operations in pediatric surgery during the epidemic period of COVID-19

Daxing Tang  1   2 , Jinfa Tou  1   2 , Jinhu Wang  1   2 , Qingjiang Chen  1   2 , Wei Wang  2   3 , Jinjin Huang  2   4 , Hangyan Zhao  2   4 , Jia Wei  1   2 , Zheming Xu  1   2 , Dongyan Zhao  1   2 , Junfen Fu  2   5 , Qiang Shu  1   2
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Prevention and control strategies for emergency, limited-term, and elective operations in pediatric surgery during the epidemic period of COVID-19

Daxing Tang et al. World J Pediatr Surg. .

Abstract

The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread to more than 100 countries. Children approved to be susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Preventing and controlling the epidemic while ensuring orderly flows of pediatric surgery clinical work has proven to be a big challenge for both patients and clinicians during the epidemic. Based on the transmission characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and the requirements for prevention and control of COVID-19, the authors proposed some concrete measures and practical strategies of managing emergency, limited-term, and elective pediatric surgeries during the epidemic period.

Keywords: epidemiology; paediatric surgery.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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