Recommendations for Surgical Interventions during COVID-19 Pandemic
Open Access
- 19 May 2020
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Galenos Yayinevi in Gazi Medical Journal
- Vol. 31 (2A), 283-286
- https://doi.org/10.12996/gmj.2020.71
Abstract
Throughout human history, many pandemics have broken out and caused great numbers of deaths. As the technological development made quite a huge advancement by the twentieth century, the medical treatment armamentarium had widened its facilities and resources. This brought with sophisticated and competent health care services for people which provided the medical practitioners with higher success rates when fighting against diseases and improved recovery and survival rates. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the high transmission rate of the novel SARS-Cov-2 virus has led to the paralysis of the health system and running out of the resources and healthcare workers. Thus, local government healthcare service regulators have begun building up plans to create management algorithms to use the limited resources more efficiently. This paper presents preliminary practical instructions for healthcare providers as a basic foundation for COVID-19 and potential future pandemics. İnsanlık tarihi boyunca çok sayıda salgın ortaya çıkmış ve pek çok ölüme neden olmuştur. 20. Yüzyılda teknolojik gelişmelerde büyük ilerlemeler olmasıyla birlikte tıbbi tedavi usul ve araç kaynakları ve imkanları da genişledi. Bu durum insanlar için sofistike ve yetkin sağlık hizmetini getirdi ve sağlık çalışanlarının hastalıklarla mücadelede yüksek başarı oranları ve daha iyi sağaltma ve sağkalım oranları elde etmelerini sağladı. Fakat, COVID-19 salgını sırasında, yeni tip SARS-Cov-2 virüsünün yüksek bulaş hızı sağlık sistemini felç etti ve kaynakların ve sağlık çalışanlarının yetersiz kalmasına neden oldu. Bu yüzden yerel sağlık hizmeti düzenleyicileri sınırlı miktardaki kaynakları daha etkin bir şekilde kullanabilmek için yönetim algoritması oluşturma planları yapmaya başladılar. Bu makale de sağlık hizmeti sunanlar için COVID-19 ve ileride ortaya çıkabilecek diğer salgınlar için temel oluşturacak öncül pratik öneriler vermektedir.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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