Letter: Precautions for Endoscopic Transnasal Skull Base Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Zara M Patel; Juan Fernandez-Miranda; Peter H Hwang; Jayakar V Nayak; Robert Dodd; Hamed Sajjadi; Robert K Jackler

doi:10.1093/neuros/nyaa125

Letter: Precautions for Endoscopic Transnasal Skull Base Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Neurosurgery. 2020 Jul 1;87(1):E66-E67. doi: 10.1093/neuros/nyaa125.

Authors

Zara M Patel¹, Juan Fernandez-Miranda¹, Peter H Hwang¹, Jayakar V Nayak¹, Robert Dodd¹, Hamed Sajjadi¹, Robert K Jackler¹

Affiliation

¹ Departments of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery and Neurosurgery Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, California.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; Endoscopic surgery; Extended endoscopic skull base surgery; Personal protective equipment (PPE); Powered air purifying respirators (PAPR); Transmission.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
COVID-19 Testing
COVID-19 Vaccines
Clinical Laboratory Techniques
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control
Coronavirus Infections / transmission*
Humans
Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional / prevention & control*
Mass Screening
Natural Orifice Endoscopic Surgery / methods*
Neuroendoscopy / methods*
Otolaryngology
Pandemics / prevention & control
Personal Protective Equipment
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral / transmission*
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
SARS-CoV-2
Skull Base / surgery*