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ReviewChild's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery2020

The impact of imposed delay in elective pediatric neurosurgery: an informed hierarchy of need in the time of mass casualty crisis.

Ranbir Ahluwalia, Brandon G Rocque, Chevis N Shannon, Jeffrey P Blount

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Review in Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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  3. 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 · 2022
    Review
  4. Impact on neurosurgical management in a Level 1 trauma center post COVID-19 shelter-in-place restrictions.Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia · 2022
    Article
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  6. Presidential address-the Black Swan: ISPN and pediatric neurosurgery in times of COVID-19.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2021
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ranbir AhluwaliaSurgical Outcomes Center for Kids, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN, USA. ra16@med.fsu.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-8194-3056
Brandon G RocqueDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Children's of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Chevis N ShannonSurgical Outcomes Center for Kids, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN, USA.
Jeffrey P BlountDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Children's of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Children's of Alabama · USFlorida State University · USMonroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19, coronavirus, has created unique challenges for the medical community after national guidelines called for the cancellation of all elective surgery. While there are clear cases of elective surgery (benign cranial cosmetic defect) and emergency surgery (hemorrhage, fracture, trauma, etc.), there is an unchartered middle ground in pediatric neurosurgery. Children, unlike adults, have dynamic anatomy and are still developing neural networks. Delaying seemingly elective surgery can affect a child's already vulnerable health state by further impacting their neurocognitive development, neurologic functioning, and potential long-term health states. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that "elective" pediatric neurosurgery should be risk-stratified, and multi-institutional informed guidelines established.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusMass Casualty IncidentsChildCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Elective Surgical ProceduresHealth Services Needs and DemandHumansNeurosurgical ProceduresPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Time-to-TreatmentBrachial plexusCoronavirusCOVID-19CraniosynostosisPediatric neurosurgerySARS-CoV-2 COVID-19

Identifiers

PMID32435890
PMCPMC7239607
OpenAlexW3025826755

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