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ArticleThe Annals of thoracic surgery2020

Thoracic Surgical Oncology: Maintaining a High-Volume Surgical Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Gerard J Fitzmaurice, Ronan J Ryan, Vincent K Young, Carmel Wall, Eimhin Dunne, Noreen Dowd, Grainne McDermott, Alan Broderick, Niall Fanning

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Article in The Annals of thoracic surgery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Gerard J FitzmauriceDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St James's Hospital and Blackrock Clinic, Dublin, Ireland. Electronic address: gfitzmaurice@doctors.org.uk.
Ronan J RyanDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St James's Hospital and Blackrock Clinic, Dublin, Ireland.
Vincent K YoungDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St James's Hospital and Blackrock Clinic, Dublin, Ireland.
Carmel WallDepartment of Anesthesia, St James's Hospital and Blackrock Clinic, Dublin, Ireland.
Eimhin DunneDepartment of Anesthesia, St James's Hospital and Blackrock Clinic, Dublin, Ireland.
Noreen DowdDepartment of Anesthesia, St James's Hospital and Blackrock Clinic, Dublin, Ireland.
Grainne McDermottDepartment of Anesthesia, St James's Hospital and Blackrock Clinic, Dublin, Ireland.
Alan BroderickDepartment of Anesthesia, St James's Hospital and Blackrock Clinic, Dublin, Ireland.
Niall FanningDepartment of Anesthesia, St James's Hospital and Blackrock Clinic, Dublin, Ireland.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thoracic surgical oncology is a time-sensitive, high-resource, complex surgical speciality to which coronavirus has posed a unique challenge. In response to the evolving situation in mainland Europe, our department rapidly established a coronavirus disease 2019-free site to maintain elective cancer surgery. This necessitated a strict admission pathway and perioperative patient management. It resulted in the maintenance of a high-volume, high-quality thoracic surgical oncology program with no coronavirus disease 2019-positive cases to date. Maintaining satisfactory training levels among surgical and anesthetic trainees has also been achieved. We suggest that this model could be adapted to local resource capabilities.

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BetacoronavirusProgram EvaluationSurgical OncologyThoracic SurgeryComorbidityCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansNeoplasmsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Thoracic Surgical Procedures

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PMID32511989
PMCPMC7274087

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