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Preoperative screening for COVID-19 is required in low-risk pediatric patients under the urgent surgical condition
- Source :
- Pediatric Surgery International
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has placed extraordinary demands on healthcare services worldwide. Some have reported increased viral transmission to healthcare workers during aerosol-generating procedures such as intubation. We report our experience with universal preoperative and preprocedural screening for COVID-19 in children requiring general anaesthesia with low risk of having the infection. Methods This was a data review involving children aged
- Subjects :
- Risk
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
Preoperative preparation
Adolescent
Databases, Factual
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Pneumonia, Viral
MEDLINE
Anesthesia, General
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19 Testing
Preoperative Care
Pediatric surgery
medicine
Mass Screening
Humans
Prospective Studies
Child
Letter to the Editor
Pandemics
Mass screening
Pediatric
Clinical Laboratory Techniques
SARS-CoV-2
business.industry
Preoperative screening
Infant, Newborn
COVID-19
Infant
General Medicine
Cross-Sectional Studies
Child, Preschool
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Emergency medicine
Screening
Original Article
Female
Surgery
Coronavirus Infections
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14379813 and 01790358
- Volume :
- 37
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Pediatric Surgery International
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....70002bab5c3a4294fc20715ca39cd003