Approach to pancreas transplant during the COVID‐19 pandemic

In March 2020, faced with potential shortages of ventilators, dialysis machines, and personal protective equipment, hospital systems drastically scaled back or halted vital activities—including new transplants—in effort to mobilize resources for anticipated or realized COVID‐19 admissions. [...]surg...

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Published in:Clinical Transplantation 2021-02, Vol.35 (2), p.e14177-n/a
Main Authors: Woodside, Kenneth J., Singh, Neeraj, Lentine, Krista L., Pavlakis, Martha, Basu, Arpita, Cabeza Rivera, Franco H., Kensinger, Clark D., Parajuli, Sandesh, Sultan, Samuel, Tantisattamo, Ekamol, Parsons, Ronald F., Cooper, Matthew
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Comorbidity
COVID-19 - epidemiology
Humans
Letter to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Pancreas Transplantation - statistics & numerical data
Pancreatic Diseases - epidemiology
Pancreatic Diseases - surgery
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2
Transplant Recipients
United States - epidemiology
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Summary:In March 2020, faced with potential shortages of ventilators, dialysis machines, and personal protective equipment, hospital systems drastically scaled back or halted vital activities—including new transplants—in effort to mobilize resources for anticipated or realized COVID‐19 admissions. [...]surge and steady state risk‐benefit considerations can be somewhat different (Figure 1C). There may be specific short‐term surge conditions that reasonably limit transplant activity, but these considerations should be properly contextualized with donor organ scarcity, expected wait‐times, avoidance of downstream diabetic morbidity and mortality, local hospital resources, and concurrent pandemic conditions.
ISSN:0902-0063
1399-0012
DOI:10.1111/ctr.14177