Perioperative planning for cardiovascular operations in the COVID-19 pandemic

Hayrettin Levent Mavioğlu

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2020.09294

Hayrettin Levent Mavioğlu¹, Ertekin Utku Ünal¹, Göktan Aşkın¹, Şeref Alp Küçüker¹, Mehmet Ali Özatik¹

¹Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2020.09294

Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is a serious health concern which alert all healthcare professionals worldwide. There are two main issues caused by this pandemic regarding for the healthcare system. First, it is a necessity to postpone many elective procedures/surgeries to reduce the burden of the healthcare system which may be confronted with strain by the increased speed of transmission. Therefore, we aimed to develop an algorithm called as Level of Priority to identify the priority and deferrability of cardiovascular diseases requiring surgery. Second, it is essential to perform surgery and intensive care unit follow-up in a setting where the infection prevention measures are followed for primary patients requiring emergency cardiovascular surgery. In this article, we present necessary precautions to be exercised to provide the patient safety and the highest level of protection for the surgical team.

Keywords : Cardiovascular surgical procedures, covid-19, pandemic, personal protective equipment

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