Vascular Surgeon discomfort in a pandemic setting.

During Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, responsible of more than 230,000 confirmed cases and 34,000 deaths in Italy at the time of June 9, 1 surgical units have been stressed to maintain the service for urgent patients, irrespective of COVID-19 infection. In this time, all the patients presenting with vascular emergency are screened for COVID-19 with pharyngeal swab and consider as positive until further investigations and diagnosis. However, those patients who require urgent surgical vascular therapy are managed as COVID-19 positive and, consequently, operating room staff have to wear personal protective equipment in order to minimize infection.
Source: Annals of Vascular Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research