The preoperative evaluation and risk assessment has always been a critical aspect of safe surgical practice, and in the midst of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, it has become even more crucial to patient safety. Emerging data show that surgical procedures in patients who test positive for coronavirus disease (COVID) are associated with worse clinical outcomes and increased postoperative complications and mortality. In addition to personal protective equipment (PPE) management, isolation protocols, preoperative SARS-CoV-2 screening, and steps to ensure clinician safety, determining how to deem patients who have recovered from COVID-19 safe to proceed is an added challenge. We present a preoperative protocol for evaluation of previously COVID-positive patients for elective surgery.
【저자키워드】 COVID-19, Elective surgery, Preoperative medicine, Preoperative protocol, 【초록키워드】 coronavirus disease, SARS-CoV-2, Personal protective equipment, pandemic, protocol, Mortality, risk, surgical, patient safety, Clinical outcome, COVID, management, Patient, Isolation, PPE, Complication, Critical, protocols, Safe, preoperative evaluation, clinician, positive, Surgical Procedure, addition, added, postoperative, proceed, the SARS-CoV-2, 【제목키워드】 Patient, preoperative evaluation, Preparing,