COVID-19
Protection From COVID-19: Where Are We Now?
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed several enduring problems with healthcare, and critical knowledge gaps concerning how respiratory viruses spread between hosts.
JULY 4, 2023
Updated Recommendations for Elective Surgery After COVID-19
The ASA and APSF have released updated recommendations for the timing of elective surgery for patients after recent COVID-19 infection.
JUNE 29, 2023
COVID-19 Infection Not Linked to Increased Post-op Complications
New research supports timely elective surgery for patients with recent COVID-19 infection, according to data presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Surgical Infection Society.
JUNE 7, 2023
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Is Over: What Does That Mean?
On May 11, the government’s COVID-19 public health emergency and national health emergency designations officially came to an end after more than three years. But certain emergency declarations have ended while others have not, and even for those declarations that have ended, some specific provisions extend beyond the May 11 expiration date.
MAY 29, 2023
Obese and Female Patients More Likely to Have Long COVID
Obesity and female sex are consistent determinants for symptoms persisting after COVID-19, according to new data.
APRIL 25, 2023
No Mask, No Difference?
Wearing surgical masks made no discernible difference in the reduction of hospital-acquired COVID-19 infections.
APRIL 18, 2023
COVID-19 Has Lasting Impact on Liver Disease
Increased mortality rates for alcohol-associated liver disease and NAFLD among younger people and some ethnic minority groups continues.
MARCH 3, 2023
No Need for PreProcedure and Pre-Admission COVID-19 Testing for Asymptomatic Patients
Calling the testing resource intensive, SHEA recommends against routinely screen asymptomatic patients for COVID-19 upon admission or before procedures at this point in the pandemic.
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Tracheostomy During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Peter Kim, MD, interviews Randall Owen, MD, Chief of endocrine surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital, in New York City, about his work regarding performing tracheostomies during the peak of the pandemic. Read Dr. Owen's 2020 article here: https://www.generalsurgerynews.com/COVID-19/Article/06-20/Tracheostomy-for-COVID-19-Patients/58822 .
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Hospital-Acquired Infections Higher at Academic Hospitals During COVID-19 Peak
DALLAS—During the initial peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, hospital-acquired infections occurred more frequently in patients treated for acute appendicitis at academic medical centers than those seen at nonacademic hospitals.
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
ASA and APSF Update Guidance for Perioperative COVID-19 Screening
The most important change regarding protocols for patients involves testing: “If community transmission is low or moderate, the patient is asymptomatic and without exposure, is vaccinated, and is undergoing a lower-risk procedure, healthcare systems could consider a more permissive approach to testing.”
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Do Airborne Isolation Rooms Actually Reduce COVID-19 Exposure?
A recent study found no difference in COVID-19 infection risk among healthcare professionals at hospitals with high versus low utilization rates of AIIRs.
AUGUST 30, 2022
