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ReviewJournal of cardiac surgery2021

COVID-19 and cardiac surgery: A perspective from United Kingdom.

Amer Harky, Deborah Harrington, Omar Nawaytou, Ahmed Othman, Catherine Fowler, Gareth Owens, Francesco Torella, Manoj Kuduvalli, Mark Field

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Review in Journal of cardiac surgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Cardiac Surgery During and After the Pandemic: A Retrospective Analysis of UK Trends and Outcomes.European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery · 2025
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  13. Outcomes following PCI in CABG candidates during the COVID-19 pandemic: The prospective multicentre UK-ReVasc registry.Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions · 2022
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  14. [COVID-19: retrospective analysis of cardiac surgery capacity in German heart centers].Zeitschrift fur Herz-, Thorax- und Gefasschirurgie · 2022
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  15. Providing safe perioperative care in cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic.Best practice & research. Clinical anaesthesiology · 2021
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  16. Aortovascular medicine: what is it?Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Amer HarkyDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5507-5841
Deborah HarringtonDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK.
Omar NawaytouDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK.
Ahmed OthmanDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK.
Catherine FowlerAortic Dissection Awareness UK & Ireland.
Gareth OwensAortic Dissection Awareness UK & Ireland.
Francesco TorellaSchool of Medicine, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Manoj KuduvalliDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK.
Mark FieldDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4817-6035

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in December 2019, presumed from the city of Wuhan, Hubei province in China, and the subsequent declaration of the disease as a pandemic by the World Health Organization as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in March 2020, had a significant impact on health care systems globally. Each country responded to this disease in different ways, however this was done broadly by fortifying and prioritizing health care provision as well as introducing social lockdown aiming to contain the infection and minimizing the risk of transmission. In the United Kingdom, a lockdown was introduced by the government on March 23, 2020 and all health care services were focussed to challenge the impact of COVID-19. To do so, the United Kingdom National Health Service had to undergo widespread service reconfigurations and the so-called "Nightingale Hospitals" were created de novo to bolster bed provision, and industries were asked to direct efforts to the production of ventilators. A government-led public health campaign was publicized under the slogan of: "Stay home, Protect the NHS (National Health Service), Save lives." The approach had a significant impact on the delivery of all surgical services but particularly cardiac surgery with its inherent critical care bed capacity. This paper describes the impact on provision for elective and emergency cardiac surgery in the United Kingdom, with a focus on aortovascular disease. We describe our aortovascular activity and outcomes during the period of UK lockdown and present a patient survey of attitudes to aortic surgery during COVID-19 pandemic.

Indexed as

Cardiac Surgical ProceduresCOVID-19ChinaCommunicable Disease ControlHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2State MedicineUnited Kingdomcardiac surgeryCOVID-19NHSserviceUnited Kingdom

Identifiers

PMID32981073
PMCPMC7537188

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