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ReviewWideochirurgia i inne techniki maloinwazyjne = Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques2020

In pursuit of COVID-19 surgical risk stratification to manage a limited workforce and supplies in minimally invasive surgery.

Kryspin Mitura, Piotr Myśliwiec, Wojciech Rogula, Michał Solecki, Jarosław P Furtak, Michał Kazanowski, Stanisław Kłęk, Michał Nowakowski, Michał Pędziwiatr, Marek Zawadzki and 2 more

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Review in Wideochirurgia i inne techniki maloinwazyjne = Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Kryspin MituraFaculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, Siedlce, Poland.
Piotr Myśliwiec1 Department of General and Endocrine Surgery, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland.
Wojciech RogulaDepartment of Paediatric Surgery, University Paediatric Hospital, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
Michał Solecki2 Department of General, Gastrointestinal, and Surgical Oncology, Alimentary Tract, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
Jarosław P FurtakDepartment of General Surgery, Pulawy Hospital, Pulawy, Poland.
Michał KazanowskiLower Silesian Oncology Centre in Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland.
Stanisław KłękDepartment of General Surgery, Stanley Dudrick Memorial Hospital, Krakow, Poland.
Michał Nowakowski2 Department of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
Michał Pędziwiatr2 Department of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
Marek ZawadzkiRegional Specialist Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland.
Grzegorz Wallner2 Department of General, Gastrointestinal, and Surgical Oncology, Alimentary Tract, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
Jacek SobockiDepartment of General Surgery and Clinical Nutrition, Medical Centre of Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The protective barriers used so far in surgery do not provide adequate protection against SARS-CoV-2 virus, and reinforced protective equipment is needed. The rapid increase in the number of patients and the worldwide panic associated with the increasingly low availability of protective equipment has resulted in a shortage of protective equipment in many hospitals. Appropriatepersonal protective equipment must be provided so that the surgical team proceeding to surgery is not excluded from the further struggle for patients' health, especially in MIS. Reckless and excessive use of maximum protective equipment may result in a severe shortage of these products when the number of infected persons requiring surgery increases. The use of a structured infection risk scheme for medical staff, depending on the results of reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction assays and COVID-19 symptoms, combined with the division of protection equipment into three groups, allows easy selection of an appropriate clothing scheme for the clinical setting.

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COVID-19epidemicFFP3pandemicpersonal protective equipmentsafety

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PMID32904725
PMCPMC7457190

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