Recommendations for acting in elective and urgent thoracic surgery during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Spanish Society of Thoracic Surgery

Cir Esp (Engl Ed). 2020 Dec;98(10):574-581. doi: 10.1016/j.ciresp.2020.08.005. Epub 2020 Sep 3.
[Article in English, Spanish]

Abstract

Expansion of the pandemic produced by new coronavirus SATS-CoV-2 has made healthcare focused on patients with COVID-19 disease, leading to discontinue most of elective surgical procedures. Being thoracic surgery eminently oncological, an optimal triage of patients amenable to be safely operated on is mandatory. Moreover, severe pulmonary involvement by COVID-19 causes complications frequently needing urgent thoracic surgical procedures under a new context. The Spanish Society of Thoracic Surgery (SECT) has developed this document to establish basic recommendations to keep up essential elective surgical activity and to guide surgeons facing thoracic urgencies in this new and unknown environment.

Keywords: COVID-19; Cirugía torácica; Recomendaciones; Recommendations; SARS-CoV-2; Safety; Seguridad; Thoracic surgery.

Publication types

  • Practice Guideline

MeSH terms

  • COVID-19 / epidemiology
  • COVID-19 / prevention & control*
  • COVID-19 / transmission*
  • Chest Tubes
  • Elective Surgical Procedures*
  • Emergencies*
  • Hospital Units
  • Humans
  • Infection Control
  • Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional / prevention & control
  • Lung Transplantation
  • Pandemics
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Management*
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Spain
  • Thoracic Surgical Procedures*
  • Tracheostomy
  • Triage