Streamlining brain tumor surgery care during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case-control study.
Regin Jay MallariMichael B AveryAlex CorlinAmalia EisenbergTerese C HammondNeil A MartinGarni BarkhoudarianDaniel F KellyPublished in: PloS one (2021)
This experience suggests the COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity for implementing a brain tumor care protocol to facilitate safely decreasing ICU utilization and accelerating discharge home without an increase in complications, readmission or reoperations. More rigorous patient education, recovery room assessment for non-ICU admission, earlier mobilization and post-discharge communication, layered upon a foundation of minimally invasive surgery, TIVA anesthesia and early post-operative imaging are possible contributors to these favorable trends.
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