Useful resources

Protocol, policies and research to help manage surgical patients and protect healthcare professionals.

PanSurg is collating a library of useful policy documents, protocols and research articles from around the world. We aim to provide a useful for resource for surgeons and other professionals managing surgical patients and their own workforce on the frontline.

COVID Policies and Protocols (scroll down for more)

Intercollegiate General Surgery Guidance on COVID-19 (25th March):

American College of Surgeons Triage Guidance (24th March 2020):

Singapore: What we do when a COVID-19 patient needs an operation: operating room preparation and guidance (6th March 2020):

Handbook of COVID-19 Preventation and Treatment

The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine

NHS Clinical guide for the management of surgical patients during the coronavirus pandemic (16th March):

NHS Clinical guide for the management of cancer patients during the coronavirus pandemic (17th March):

SAGES Recommendations Regarding Surgical Response to COVID-19 Crisis

SAGES Basics of mechanical care ventilation for non-critical care clinicians

Managing COVID-19 in Surgical Systems

Mary Brindley and Atul Gawande

Zhejiang University School of Medicine Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment (March 2020):

West China Hospital: Integrated infection control strategy to minimize nosocomial infection of coronavirus disease 2019 among ENT healthcare workers (27th February):

COVID-19 Journal Articles

The three vital lessons Italian hospitals have learned in fighting covid-19 (25th March):

PanSurg Collaborative

Health Services Journal

Practical recommendations for critical care and anesthesiology teams caring for novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) patients

Randy Wax and Michael Christian

Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia

Aerosol and COVID19

Surgical smoke and infection control:

Aerosol and surface stability of HCoV-19 (SARS-CoV-2):

Evidence for gastrointestinal infection of SARS-CoV-2:

Media

Sterile PPE donning and Doffing