PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Blayne Welk
AU  - Lucie Richard
AU  - Sebastian Rodriguez-Elizalde
TI  - The requirement for surgery and subsequent 30-day mortality in patients with COVID-19
AID  - 10.1503/cjs.022020
DP  - 2021 Apr 01
TA  - Canadian Journal of Surgery
PG  - E246--E248
VI  - 64
IP  - 2
4099  - http://canjsurg.ca/content/64/2/E246.short
4100  - http://canjsurg.ca/content/64/2/E246.full
SO  - CAN J SURG2021 Apr 01; 64
AB  - The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had profound effects on the provision of surgical care. The potential perioperative mortality associated with surgical procedures in patients with COVID-19 has been estimated at 20%, but the data come from jurisdictions that experienced very high surges of COVID-19 patients. A rapid assessment of the types of surgical care for patients with COVID-19 in Ontario was carried out using administrative data, and we found that during the initial wave in the spring of 2020, surgical interventions were required in 0.6% of patients with COVID-19, and mortality was higher (20%) in patients who underwent surgery in the 2 weeks before or after a positive nasopharygeal swab than in those who had surgery more than 2 weeks after COVID-19 was diagnosed.