Response of a European surgical department to the COVID-19 crisis

Andrea Peloso; Beat Moeckli; Graziano Oldani; Frédéric Triponez; Christian Toso

doi:10.4414/smw.2020.20241

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Response of a European surgical department to the COVID-19 crisis

Andrea Peloso
Beat Moeckli
Graziano Oldani
Frédéric Triponez
Christian Toso

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2020.20241
Cite this as:: Swiss Med Wkly. 2020;150:w20241
Published: 09.04.2020

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Murray CJL, Lopez AD, Chin B, Feehan D, Hill KH. Estimation of potential global pandemic influenza mortality on the basis of vital registry data from the 1918-20 pandemic: a quantitative analysis. Lancet. 2006;368(9554):2211–8. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69895-4
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Markel H, Lipman HB, Navarro JA, Sloan A, Michalsen JR, Stern AM, et al. Nonpharmaceutical interventions implemented by US cities during the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic. JAMA. 2007;298(6):644–54. Published online August 09, 2007. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.298.6.644
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[1] Wu Z, McGoogan JM. Characteristics of and Important Lessons From the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak in China: Summary of a Report of 72 314 Cases From the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. JAMA. 2020. Published online February 25, 2020. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.2648

[2] Murray CJL, Lopez AD, Chin B, Feehan D, Hill KH. Estimation of potential global pandemic influenza mortality on the basis of vital registry data from the 1918-20 pandemic: a quantitative analysis. Lancet. 2006;368(9554):2211–8. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69895-4

[3] Reports of the surgeon general of the army 1919.

[4] Markel H, Lipman HB, Navarro JA, Sloan A, Michalsen JR, Stern AM, et al. Nonpharmaceutical interventions implemented by US cities during the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic. JAMA. 2007;298(6):644–54. Published online August 09, 2007. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.298.6.644

[5] Fowler RA, Lapinsky SE, Hallett D, Detsky AS, Sibbald WJ, Slutsky AS, et al.; Toronto SARS Critical Care Group. Critically ill patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome. JAMA. 2003;290(3):367–73. Published online July 17, 2003. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.290.3.367

[6] Pandemic Influenza Plan CDC. 2017 [13.03.2020]. Available from: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/pdf/pan-flu-report-2017v2.pdf.

[7] American College of Surgeons. COVID-19: Recommendations for Management of Elective Surgical Procedures 2020 [15 March 2020]. Available from: https://www.facs.org/about-acs/covid-19/information-for-surgeons.

[8] Wong J, Goh QY, Tan Z, Lie SA, Tay YC, Ng SY, et al. Preparing for a COVID-19 pandemic: a review of operating room outbreak response measures in a large tertiary hospital in Singapore. Can J Anaesth. 2020. Published online March 13, 2020. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1007/s12630-020-01620-9