Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Urology Practice: Review of Literature

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research

卷:14

Mohammad Shazib Faridi¹  Hemant Goel²  Jasim Khan³  Rajeev Sood⁴ 

[1] Assistant Professor, Department of Urology and Renal Transplant, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences and Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi, India.;

[2] Associate Professor, Department of Urology and Renal Transplant, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences and Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi, India.;

[3] Fellow, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35233, USA.;

[4] Professor, Department of Urology and Renal Transplant, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences and Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi, India.;

关键词: coronavirus;    guideline;    severe acute respiratory syndrome;    surgery;   

DOI  :  10.7860/JCDR/2020/46423.14355

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic is a challenge to the healthcare system including urology which is big and formidable. Thepresent scenario has changed the health preferences to emergency and essential services only. Reallocation of healthcare providers,wards and equipments resulted in suspension of all outpatient and elective activities to select only non-deferrable and criticalprocedures. Consequently, all health care workers including urologists must abide by the recommendations when dealing with theCOVID-19 patients. This pandemic has also disrupted the training and education programs of urology residents also. Subsequently,in this review article, authors have discussed the influence of COVID-19 on urological practice. Authors have also reviewed therecommendations on triaging of urology procedures (emergent and non-emergent), office based urological procedures, oncologicsurgeries, paediatric urology, urology-pathology interaction and economic burden on healthcare system during COVID-19 pandemic.

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