Triaging Spine Surgery and Treatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic

© 2020 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Professor P K Surendran Memorial Education Foundation..

OBJECTIVE: To utilize evidence-based medicine to help determine guidelines for spinal surgery during the Covid-19 era.

METHODS: A literature review was performed of peer-reviewed articles focused on indications for common procedures in spine surgery. Based on these indications, we sub-categorized these procedures into elective, urgent and emergent categories. Case examples provided.

RESULTS: Indications for spinal surgery were reviewed based on current literature and categorized. This manuscript presents a decision-making algorithm to help provide a guideline for determining the appropriateness of proceeding with spinal surgery during this COVID-19 time period.

CONCLUSIONS: Spinal surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic is an intricate challenging decision-making process, involving clinical, sociologic and economic factors.

Errataetall:

ErratumIn: J Orthop. 2020 Dec 15;24:291. - PMID 33994700

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:20

Enthalten in:

Journal of orthopaedics - 20(2020) vom: 14. Juli, Seite 380-385

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rizkalla, James M [VerfasserIn]
Hotchkiss, William [VerfasserIn]
Clavenna, Andrew [VerfasserIn]
Dossett, Andrew [VerfasserIn]
Syed, Ishaq Y [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Coronavirus
Infectious disease
Journal Article
Pandemic
Review
Spinal surgery
Spine

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 11.11.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

ErratumIn: J Orthop. 2020 Dec 15;24:291. - PMID 33994700

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jor.2020.06.015

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM313399018