Cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic: from vita minima to recovery

Br J Surg. 2020 Oct;107(11):e481-e483. doi: 10.1002/bjs.11941. Epub 2020 Aug 26.

Authors

Hassiba Smail¹, Ulrich A Stock¹, Fabio De Robertis¹, Sunil K Bhudia¹, Tarun Mittal², Simon Mattison³, Mario Petrou⁴, Jonathan Hill⁵, Jullien Gaer¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Transplantation, Harefield Hospital, Harefield, Middlesex, UK.
² Department of Radiology, Harefield Hospital, Harefield, Middlesex, UK.
³ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Harefield Hospital, Harefield, Middlesex, UK.
⁴ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.
⁵ Department of Cardiology, Harefield Hospital, Harefield, Middlesex, UK.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / epidemiology*
COVID-19 Testing
Cardiac Surgical Procedures / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Infection Control
Length of Stay / statistics & numerical data
Pandemics
Resource Allocation
Triage*
United Kingdom / epidemiology