Coronavirus Disease 2019 Considerations for Perioperative Healthcare Providers
Objectives This review provides an assessment of recent published or presented trends of perioperative healthcare of COVID 19 which is hitting the world, to provide refer for the frontline medical staff during the outbreak of epidemic, especially for surgeons and anesthesiologists. Methods Searching and reviewing recent published or presented articles about the COVID 19 from PubMed, COVID 19 center of ScienceDirect, Medline, JAMA, The LANCET, MedRxiv, some main Chinese journals and so on. Results The coronavirus disease 2019 has heightened infectious probability and has caused hundreds of thousands death. How to recognize, treat, and overcome this disease is a problem that all medical staff and all humans need to face. First, we should correctly identify suspicious and diagnosed patients and take protection levels according to the type of patients. Surgery and endoscopy are a serious issue during the epidemic, unless emergency condition. Once COVID 19 patients have to accept surgery, more detailed issues should be considered. Besides, special management methods should be implemented for special COVID 19 patients. Conclusion Safety for patients and healthcare providers is very important, we should do what we can do to cut off the spread of the virus in hospital and reduce the risk of infection.