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ReviewVaccines2023

Surgical Protocols before and after COVID-19-A Narrative Review.

Sahana Shivkumar, Vini Mehta, Sunil Kumar Vaddamanu, Urvashi A Shetty, Fahad Hussain Alhamoudi, Maram Ali M Alwadi, Lujain Ibrahim N Aldosari, Abdulkhaliq Ali F Alshadidi, Giuseppe Minervini

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Review in Vaccines, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Sahana ShivkumarDepartment of Public Health Dentistry, Peoples College of Dental Sciences & Research Centre, People University, Bhopal 462037, India.
Vini MehtaDepartment of Public Health Dentistry, Dr. D.Y. Patil Dental College and Hospital, Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pimpri, Pune 411018, India.ORCID 0000-0003-4174-907X
Sunil Kumar VaddamanuDepartment of Dental Technology, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Khalid University, Abha 62529, Saudi Arabia.
Urvashi A ShettyDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Oral Microbiology, AB Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences, NITTE (Deemed to Be University), Mangalore 575018, India.ORCID 0000-0003-3523-407X
Fahad Hussain AlhamoudiDepartment of Dental Technology, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Khalid University, Abha 62529, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-8391-1787
Maram Ali M AlwadiDental Health Department, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-7796-4850
Lujain Ibrahim N AldosariProsthodontics Department, College of Dentistry, King Khalid University, Abha 61421, Saudi Arabia.
Abdulkhaliq Ali F AlshadidiDepartment of Dental Technology, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Khalid University, Abha 62529, Saudi Arabia.
Giuseppe MinerviniMultidisciplinary Department of Medical-Surgical and Dental Specialties, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, 80138 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8309-1272

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 epidemic has affected not only people's daily lives but also the working methods of clinicians, surgical procedures, open/minimally invasive procedures, operating room management, patient and healthcare worker safety, education and training. The main objective of this study was to review selected articles and determine the changes in the general surgery protocols/procedures before and after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The literature was carried out in PubMed-Medline, Cochrane Library, Embase, Scopus and Google Scholar. The terms utilised for the searches were "SARS-CoV-2", "Surgery", "COVID-19", "Surgical protocol", "Surgical recommendations" and "before and after". A total of 236 studies were identified, out of which 41 studies were included for data extraction. Significant changes in all the articles were observed with respect to the surgeries done before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the number of elective surgeries were considerably fewer in comparison to the pre-pandemic period. Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, hospitals all throughout the world have conducted significantly fewer procedures, particularly elective/non-urgent surgeries.

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COVID-19surgical guidelinessurgical practicesurgical protocol

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PMID36851316
PMCPMC9963090

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