Returning to elective surgery, the ‘new normal’

The Covid-19 pandemic has profoundly affected health-care services throughout the world. From the initial phase of treating those affected and displacing elective surgery, we now move to a transition phase of ‘the new normal’. Our health-care pathways have not returned to pre-pandemic practice and may never do so. We have instead gone through a profound period of change and reflection as to how patients are referred and risk assessed as well as how we manage their pre-operative and post-operative rec overy.
Source: The Knee - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research