Surgical Consent during COVID Pandemic: COVID Times—Surgical Consent Checklist

Jose, Toney; Joy, Arya

doi:10.1007/s12262-020-02544-w

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“…Informed consent is an essential step of the surgical operation, in which the dealing surgeon gives information from the data in the literature to the patient regarding the options of treatment to assist the patient to make an informed decision of the required option of the treatment [32]. We can summarize this information according to each letter in the word CONSENTS, C=Condition, O=Options of treatment, N=Name of the operation, S=Side effects or complications, E=Extra procedure/s, N=Name of the surgeon, T=Training and Teaching, and S=Second opinion.…”

Section: D: Consentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Surgical Care and Resident Education during COVID-19 Pandemic

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COVID-19 pandemic is nearly affecting all surgical activities including providing a surgical care to the patients as well as a negative impact on the educational program of the resident doctors in nearly all surgical specialties. During this period, surgeons set out to find an effective solution to deal with patients who visit outpatient surgical clinics or emergency units especially those who are infected or in contact with an infected individual. Moreover, the continuity of the educational program to the residents, doctors and completion of the syllabus is an essential issue needs to be done in a complete organized manner. The aims are to provide the best solution for them (surgical patients and resident doctors) as well as reducing the risk of the infection to other patients, residents, and healthcare staff. Telemedicine can act as a substitute to many in-person consultation, therefore, it aids in controlling the infection. Many studies and recommendations are tackling this vital issue among surgeons from different specialties across the globe. Despite minor variations among these, these studies serve the above-mentioned purposes. We highlight in this narrative review to give the surgeons an appropriate plan for dealing with suspected or infected COVID-19 surgical cases and to complete the surgical educational program of the resident doctors.

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Section: D: Consentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition to routine consent from a surgical patient, the patient should understand and accept the possibility of getting COVID-19 with its complications (particularly pulmonary complications) and even mortality. Moreover, it should be taken electronically [32,33].…”

Section: D: Consentmentioning

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“…To maintain a basic level of care in this situation, modifications to the daily clinical routines were implemented around the globe [ 5 , 8 , 13 ], including at the Medical University of Vienna in general and at our department (Anesthesia, General Intensive Care, and Pain Therapy) in particular. One of the domains affected was the standard process of obtaining informed consent in American Society of Anesthesiology Physical Status (ASA-PS, hereinafter simply ASA) I and II patients before anesthesia and surgery.…”

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“…Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID- 19) was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11 th , 2020 [1]. Since its outbreak, many healthcare providers have been forced to modify their standard procedures to meet the special challenges arising from the crisis [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. Elective surgery was postponed extensively and treatment of outpatients dramatically reduced [10,11].…”

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Ad-hoc preoperative management and respiratory events in pediatric anesthesia during the first COVID-19 lockdown–an observational cohort study

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Background Early pre-anesthetic management for surgery is aimed at identifying risk factors, which notably in children are mostly airway related. The first COVID-19 lockdown opened a unique ‘window of opportunity’ to study what impact an ad-hoc management strategy would bring to bear on intraoperative respiratory events. Methods In this observational cohort study we included all patients with an American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) Physical Status of I or II, aged 0 to ≤18 years, who underwent elective surgery at our center during the first national COVID-19 lockdown (March 15th to May 31st, 2020) and all analogue cases during the same calendar period of 2017−2019. The primary outcome parameter was a drop in peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2) below 90% during anesthesia management. The study is completed and registered with the German Clinical Trials Register, DRKS00024128. Results Given 125 of 796 evaluable cases during the early 2020 lockdown, significant differences over the years did not emerge for the primary outcome or event counts (p>0.05). Events were exceedingly rare even under general anesthesia (n = 3) and non-existent under regional anesthesia (apart from block failures: n = 4). Regression analysis for SpO2 events <90% yielded no significant difference for ad-hoc vs standard preoperative management (p = 0.367) but more events based on younger patients (p = 0.007), endotracheal intubation (p = 0.007), and bronchopulmonary procedures (p = 0.001). Conclusions Early assessment may not add to the safety of pediatric anesthesia. As a potential caveat for other centers, the high rate of anesthesia without airway manipulation at our center may contribute to our low rate of respiratory events.

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Surgical Consent during COVID Pandemic: COVID Times—Surgical Consent Checklist

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Surgical Care and Resident Education during COVID-19 Pandemic

Surgical Care and Resident Education during COVID-19 Pandemic

Ad-hoc preoperative management and respiratory events in pediatric anesthesia during the first COVID-19 lockdown–an observational cohort study

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