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- by drasif5bg
It is very likely that the health care infrastructure and resources of most countries around the world will be strained over the coming weeks because of the dissemination of COVID-19 particularly as it relates to care of the most critically ill patients.
Social distancing, crowd avoidance, and other techniques do help to flatten the curve of the dissemination of COVID-19, but beyond that, it is appropriate to be forward thinking regarding those patients who will, nevertheless, become infected.
Every plastic surgeon should thoughtfully review all his scheduled elective procedures with a plan to minimize ,postpone or cancel electively planned operations or other invasive procedures until the infection point reach to plateau phase or flat curve epidemiologically
Don’t put your elective patients at risk: An asymptomatic patient can turn into a complication patient through general anesthesia, as we push the viruses into the lungs through ventilation. In addition, we weaken the immune system with every surgical procedure.
Every operation can cause complications that require hospitalization and possibly intensive care, which is a scarce resource in corona times.
Keep in mind that every infusion, every ampoule of adrenaline you need for liposuction or an antibiotic that you give for prophylaxis in a breast augmentation might be needed for emergencies and is already in short supply on the world market and already no longer available in several countries.
