Robotic surgery can be safely performed for patients and healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic

© 2021 The Authors. The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd..

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the safety of robotic surgery during COVID-19 pandemic concerning new-acquired COVID-19 infections for patients and healthcare workers.

PATIENTS: We performed a retrospective single-centre cohort study of patients undergoing robotic surgery in initial period of COVID-19 pandemic. Patients and healthcare workers COVID-19 infection status was assessed by structured telephone follow-up and/or repeated nasopharyngeal swabs.

RESULTS: After 61 robotic surgeries (93,5% cancer surgery), one patient (1.6%) had COVID-19 infection. Sixty healthcare workers cumulatively exposed to 1187 h of robotic surgery had no infection. One patient with postoperative proof of SARS-CoV-2 had complete recovery. After this potentially contagious robotic surgery, eight healthcare workers had no COVID-19 infection after follow-up with each three nasopharyngeal swabs.

CONCLUSIONS: Early clinical experience of robotic surgery during COVID-19 pandemic shows that robotic surgery can be safely performed for patients and healthcare workers. Despite our results we recommend elective surgery only for verified COVID-19 negative patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS - 17(2021), 4 vom: 02. Aug., Seite e2291

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sparwasser, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Brandt, Maximillian P [VerfasserIn]
Haack, Maximillian [VerfasserIn]
Dotzauer, Robert [VerfasserIn]
Boehm, Katharina [VerfasserIn]
Gheith, Mohammed Kamal [VerfasserIn]
Mager, Rene [VerfasserIn]
Jäger, Wolfgang [VerfasserIn]
Ziebart, Alexander [VerfasserIn]
Höfner, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Tsaur, Igor [VerfasserIn]
Haferkamp, Axel [VerfasserIn]
Borgmann, Hendrik [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

2019-nCoV
Coronavirus
Infection
Journal Article
Robotics
SARS-CoV-2
Safety

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 20.07.2021

Date Revised 05.10.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/rcs.2291

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM325992622