[COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany: The Current Situation in Thoracic Surgery].
Tomasz DziodzioKarl-Herbert HillebrandtSebastian KnitterPaul Viktor RitschlMaximilian JaraMaximilian NösserAron ElsnerRobert ÖllingerJohann PratschkeJens-Carsten RückertJens NeudeckerPublished in: Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie (2020)
Almost all thoracic surgeons reported that they had treated patients with COVID-19 and half of them also had performed surgery on COVID-19-positive patients. The applied procedural instructions as well as the effects of COVID-19 on treatment decisions and patient-doctor contact differed between the reporting clinics.
Keyphrases
- thoracic surgery
- coronavirus disease
- sars cov
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- primary care
- chronic kidney disease
- minimally invasive
- prognostic factors
- case report
- spinal cord
- coronary artery bypass
- patient reported outcomes
- acute coronary syndrome
- combination therapy
- atrial fibrillation
- patient reported