Neurosurgery and coronavirus: impact and challenges-lessons learnt from the first wave of a global pandemic.
Keyoumars AshkanJosephine JungAlexandra Maria VelicuAhmed RaslanMohammed FaruquePandurang KulkarniCristina BleilHarutomo HasegawaAhilan Kailaya-VasanEleni MaratosGordan GrahovacFrancesco VerganiBassel ZebianSinan BaraziIrfan MalikDavid BellDaniel WalshRanjeev BhangooChristos ToliasSanjeev BassiRichard SelwayNick ThomasChristopher ChandlerRichard GullanPublished in: Acta neurochirurgica (2020)
The capacity to safely treat patients requiring urgent or emergency neurosurgical care was maintained at all times. Strategies adopted to enable this included proactively approaching the referrers to maintain lines of communications, incorporating modern technology to run clinics and MDTs, restructuring patient pathways/facilities, and initiating the delivery of NHS care within private sector hospitals. Through this multi-modal approach we were able to minimize service disruptions, the complications, and mortality.
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