ABSTRACT

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the critical preoperative assessment has become even more important as an aspect of safety surgical practice, not only for the assessment for patient safety, but also to ensure the safety of the surgeon-anesthesia team, the operation theater staff and other health personal that can get exposed. As the pandemic evolves and the lasting issues of poor management of personal protective equipment (PPE), not fully understood isolation protocols, and the additional challenges of how to determine if previously COVID-19 positive tested patients are fully recovered and can be safely taken up for elective surgery. We present a Preoperative protocol adapted in KIMS, Karad, for the assessment of previously COVID-19 positive patients being taken up for elective surgery.
Publication date: 15/02/2022

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2022/11.2.1025