Preoperative screening for COVID-19 is required in low-risk pediatric patients under the urgent surgical condition

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