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ReviewCurrent obesity reports2022

Safe Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Rishi Singhal, Luke Dickerson, Nasser Sakran, Sjaak Pouwels, Sonja Chiappetta, Sylvia Weiner, Sanjay Purkayastha, Brij Madhok, Kamal Mahawar

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Review in Current obesity reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. COVID-19 on Elective Surgery Outcomes in a Brazilian Tertiary Hospital: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 8 institutions in 4 countries.

Rishi SinghalUpper GI Unit, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, UK. singhal_rishi@hotmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2797-2569
Luke DickersonDepartment of General Surgery, Leighton Hospital, Crewe, UK.
Nasser SakranDirector Bariatric Centre, Department of Surgery, Emek Medical Centre, Afula, Israel.
Sjaak PouwelsDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands.
Sonja ChiappettaHead Obesity and Metabolic Surgery, Ospedale Evangelico Betania, Naples, Italy.
Sylvia WeinerDepartment of Obesity and Metabolic Surgery, Krankenhaus Nordwest, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Sanjay PurkayasthaImperial College London, London, UK.
Brij MadhokRoyal Derby Hospital, Derby, UK.
Kamal MahawarBariatric Unit, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Trust, Sunderland, UK.
Elisabeth-TweeSteden Ziekenhuis · NLImperial College London · GBKrankenhaus Nordwest · DELeighton Hospital · GBRoyal Derby Hospital · GBSouth Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust · GBTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology · ILUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewCoronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) has had an enormous impact on all aspects of healthcare, but its effect on patients needing surgery and surgeons has been disproportionate. In this review, we aim to understand the impact of the pandemic on surgical patients and teams. We compiled the emerging data on pre-operative screening methods, vaccinations, safe-surgery pathways and surgical techniques and make recommendations for evidence-based safe-surgical pathways. We also present surgical outcomes for emergency, oncological and benign surgery in the context of the pandemic. Finally, we attempt to address the impact of the pandemic on patients, staff and surgical training and provide perspectives for the future. RECENT

findingsSurgical teams have developed consensus guidelines and established research priorities and safety precautions for surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence supports that surgery in patients with a peri-operative SARS-CoV-2 infection carries substantial risks, but risk mitigation strategies are effective at reducing harm to staff and patients. Surgery has increased risk for patients and staff, but this can be mitigated effectively, especially for elective surgery. Elective surgery can be safely performed during the COVID-19 pandemic employing the strategies discussed in this review.

Indexed as

COVID-19PandemicsDelivery of Health CareElective Surgical ProceduresHumansSARS-CoV-2COVID-19Pre-operative screeningSurgerySurgical outcomesTestingVaccination

Identifiers

PMID34709586
PMCPMC8552630
OpenAlexW3209428648

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