Endocrine Surgery during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Recommendations from the Turkish Association of Endocrine Surgery
Articles > Review · 2020
Authors: Nurcihan Aygun, Yalin Iscan, Murat ÖZDEMİR, Selen Soylu, Oguz Ugur Aydin, Ismail Cem Sormaz, Ahmet Cem Dural, Nuri Alper Sahbaz, Serkan TEKSÖZ, Özer MAKAY, Ali Ugur Emre, Mehmet Haciyanli, Recep Gökhan İÇÖZ, Yasemin Giles, Adnan Isgor, Mehmet Uludag, Fatih Tunca
MEDICAL BULLETIN OF SISLI ETFAL HOSPITAL, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, 2020, vol 54, pp 117-131
Summary
The 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was initially seen in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. World Health Organization classified COVID-19 as a pandemic after its rapid spread worldwide in a few months. With the pandemic, all elective surgeries and non-emergency procedures have been postponed in our country, as in others. Most of the endocrine operations can be postponed for a certain period. However, it must be kept in mind that these patients also need surgical treatment, and the delay time should not cause a negative effect on the surgical outcome or disease process. It has recently been suggested that elective surgical interventions can be described as medically necessary, time-sensitive (MeNTS) procedures.