ReviewWorld neurosurgery2020
Challenges to Neurosurgery During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic.
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 59 citations in OpenAlex.
- Evaluation of simulation models in neurosurgical training according to face, content, and construct validity: a systematic review.Acta neurochirurgica · 2022Pooled it
- Ethical issues in neurosurgery - A scoping review from the EANS Ethico-legal committee.Brain & spine · 2026Review
- From Crisis Response to Lasting Transformation: Five-Year Insights from the Implementation of Telemedicine in Neurosurgical Care During COVID-19.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- COVID-19 ethics: unique aspects and a review as of early 2024.Monash bioethics review · 2024Review
- Declaration of Computational Neurosurgery.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024Article
- Delay of Surgery for Spinal Metastasis due to the COVID-19 Outbreak Affected Patient Outcomes.Neurospine · 2023Article
- Healthcare-Associated Ventriculitis in Children during COVID-19 Pandemic: Clinical Characteristics and Outcome of a First Infection.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Network analysis of neurosurgical literature: an increased focus on training during the COVID-19 pandemic.Neurosurgical review · 2023Review
- A look at the global impact of COVID-19 pandemic on neurosurgical services and residency training.Scientific African · 2023Article
- How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted clinical care and research in Neuro-Oncology?Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia · 2022Review
- Does the COVID-19 Screening Test Affect the Postoperative Prognosis of Patients Who Undergo Emergency Surgery for Cerebral Hemorrhage?Korean journal of neurotrauma · 2022Article
- Impact of COVID-19 on Intracranial Meningioma Resection: Results from California State Inpatient Database.Cancers · 2022Article
- Managing Traumatic Brain Injury During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic-A Case-Matched Controlled Analysis of Immediate Outcomes.World neurosurgery · 2022Article
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- Letter to the Editor: Neurosurgery in COVID Pandemic: An Experience from a Tertiary Care Center of Eastern Nepal.World neurosurgery · 2022Article
- Challenges in Neurosurgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Experience of Kazakhstan.World neurosurgery · 2022Article
- High fidelity simulation of the endoscopic transsphenoidal approach: Validation of the UpSurgeOn TNS Box.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Article
- Impact of COVID-19 on Neurosurgery in Brazil's Health System: The Reality of a Developing Country Affected by the Pandemic.World neurosurgery · 2021Article
- Neurosurgical Outcomes, Protocols, and Resource Management During Lockdown: Early Institutional Experience from One of the World's Largest COVID 19 Hotspots.World neurosurgery · 2021Article
- Outcomes and Surgical Considerations for Neurosurgical Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19-A Multicenter Case Series.World neurosurgery · 2021Observational
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Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has presented a massive burden to most health care systems across the globe. The demand for intensive care unit capacity in particular has increased significantly, and hospitals in most affected regions have struggled to cope. The focus of health care activity has shifted to the pandemic, with a negative impact on the management of other conditions. Neurosurgery, like most specialties, has been drastically affected but, arguably, warrants special considerations because many of the treatments required are time-critical. Lack or delay of appropriate intervention may lead, for an individual patient, to permanent neurologic injury and a significant decline in function and quality of life, or even death. In this report, we consider the challenges that neurosurgeons currently face in relation to the pandemic and are likely to face in the foreseeable future. The challenges are multifaceted with practical, ethical, legal, and other implications. These include re-deployment of staff to areas outside neurosurgery, treatment priority setting, ethical decision-making and risk of moral injury, as well as medicolegal risks, financial uncertainties and implications for training, research, and global health work. As well as patients, these challenges will affect neurosurgeons as doctors and as humans. The international neurosurgical community has a moral duty to contribute to the global response to the COVID-19 crisis, but also to retain a duty to care for individual patients.
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