Compliance with UK national guidance for elective surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic

Correspondence to Christina Major, Department of Paediatric Surgery and Urology, Southampton Children's Hospital, Southampton, UK; christina.major@doctors.org.uk Elective paediatric surgery essentially stopped during the initial COVID-19 lockdown,resulting in significant treatment delays. Curre...

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Published in:Archives of disease in childhood 2021-04, Vol.106 (4), p.e26-e26
Main Authors: Major, Christina, Harwood, Rachel, Patel, Sanjay Valabh, Hall, Nigel J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Child
Child Health
Children & youth
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 - prevention & control
data collection
Disease transmission
Elective Surgical Procedures - legislation & jurisprudence
England
Families & family life
Family (Sociological Unit)
Guidance
Guideline Adherence - legislation & jurisprudence
Humans
Immunization
Low Income Groups
Medical personnel
Pandemics
Pediatrics
PostScript
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Surgery
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Summary:Correspondence to Christina Major, Department of Paediatric Surgery and Urology, Southampton Children's Hospital, Southampton, UK; christina.major@doctors.org.uk Elective paediatric surgery essentially stopped during the initial COVID-19 lockdown,resulting in significant treatment delays. Currently, there is little evidence of the potential harm caused by delays and non-compliance, but it is anticipated this will soon become evident. Since audit completion, and in light of increasing prevalence, consideration of rapid testing in the immediate preoperative period has been introduced to the guidance to reduce the potential risk posed by a delay of over 24 hours between the PCR swab and hospital admission. Twitter @RachelHarwood10 Contributors NJH and SVP conceived the study; CM, NJH and RH designed the audit and collected the data; CM analysed the data; CM, RH, SVP and NJH interpreted the data; CM wrote the draft report, which was critically revised and approved by all authors.
ISSN:0003-9888
1468-2044
DOI:10.1136/archdischild-2020-321445