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GuidelineSurgical endoscopy2025

SAGES guidelines update to laparoscopy in the era of COVID-19.

Sunjay S Kumar, Elisa C Calabrese, Bethany J Slater, Chelsea Lin, Julie Hong, Jonathan Dort, Robert Lim, Shawn Tsuda, Ziad Awad, Wendy Babidge and 9 more

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Guideline in Surgical endoscopy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors.

Sunjay S Kumar *Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Elisa C Calabrese *Department of Surgery, University of California-East Bay, 1411 E 31st St, Oakland, CA, 94602, USA. eclbrs@gmail.com.ORCID 0009-0007-0217-7933
Bethany J SlaterDepartment of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Chelsea LinMonash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.
Julie HongDepartment of Surgery, New York Presbyterian-Queens, Flushing, NY, USA.
Jonathan DortDepartment of Surgery, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Falls Church, VA, USA.
Robert LimWake Forest University School of Medicine Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA.
Shawn TsudaThe Valley Health System GME Consortium, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Ziad AwadDepartment of Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Wendy BabidgeDepartment of Surgery, University of Adelaide, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Guy MaddernDepartment of Surgery, University of Adelaide, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Pramod NepalDepartment of Surgery, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
R Wesley VosburgDepartment of Surgery, Grand Strand Medical Center, Myrtle Beach, SC, USA.
Romeo IgnacioDepartment of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Devi BavishiDepartment of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Ali KchaouDepartment of Surgery, Sfax Medical School, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia.
Subhashini AylooDepartment of Surgery, Saginaw Veterans Healthcare System, Saginaw, MI, USA.
Nader M HannaDepartment of Surgery, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Geoffrey P KohnMonash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPatients requiring cholecystectomy or appendectomy may present with concomitant COVID infection in both the inpatient and outpatient scenarios. It is unclear whether these patients benefit more from operative or nonoperative management in the setting of active COVID infection. These guidelines seek to address urgent and elective clinical scenarios.

methodsA systematic review was conducted to address these questions. These results were then presented to an interdisciplinary panel that formulated recommendations based on the best available evidence or utilized expert opinion when the evidence base was lacking.

resultsConditional recommendations were made in favor of (1) either operative or nonoperative management of COVID-positive patients with appendicitis or cholecystitis and (2) delaying operations by more than six weeks in patients who test positive for COVID in the elective setting.

conclusionsThese recommendations should provide guidance regarding the management of surgical patients with concomitant COVID infection. This guideline also identifies important areas where future research should focus to strengthen the evidence base.

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AppendectomyAppendicitisCholecystectomy, LaparoscopicCholecystitisCOVID-19LaparoscopyElective Surgical ProceduresHumansSARS-CoV-2AppendicitisCholecystitisCOVIDCOVID-19GuidelinesGuideline updateSurgery

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PMID39930124

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