Comment on “Early Postoperative COVID Infection is Associated with Significantly Increased Risk of Venous Thromboembolism After Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery”

Has there ever been a period of great medical uncertainty, such as in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic? There were so many unanswered questions at the time and very little practical information available to decision-makers, both at the national level and within our specialty of bariatric surgery. For almost a year, surgeons were shut out of our operating rooms and worked the front lines in the battle against this new foe. As hospitals reopened their doors to elective surgery and surgeons came to grips with the new reality of post-COVID triage of preoperative patients, rules for returning to the operating room were developed that centered around the relative risks of surgery on the newly recovered.
Source: Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research