The Perioperative Management of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic in China.
World Neurosurg
; 143: 502-506.e1, 2020 11.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-765763
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
For most of the international community outside the epicenter, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) containment is normalizing, and daily medical practice runs parallel to preventing and treating COVID-19. This experience of simultaneously conducting emergent surgery and infection control for COVID-19 disease is useful outside the epicenter during the pandemic. CASE DESCRIPTION In this single-center retrospective observational study, we enrolled patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) who were emergently admitted from January 23 to April 8, 2020. Based on the COVID-19 triage, patients with SAH were divided into 3 categories positive, negative, and under investigation. During 77 days, 90 patients with SAH were admitted at the center. The median age was 55 years (range, 18-80 years) and 40 patients (44.4%) were male. None was positive, 42 patients were negative, and 48 patients were under investigation for COVID-19 before surgery. During the same period, 9 patients were diagnosed with COVID-19 without nosocomial infection.CONCLUSIONS:
Rescuing patients with SAH and containment of COVID-19 benefit from joint prevention and control, a centralized system of equipment distribution and personnel assignment, and quick workflow establishment.Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
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SARS-CoV-2
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Case report
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
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Young adult
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
World Neurosurg
Journal subject:
Neurosurgery
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
J.wneu.2020.08.007
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