We are happy to note that NIHR have highlighted the GlobalSurg-COVIDSurg Collaborative study on their website NIHR-funded study shows patients who isolate before surgery are 20% more likely to develop postoperative lung complications
Global Surgery Policy Roundtable: Recovery of Surgical Services Beyond COVID-19 Date: Wednesday 14 July 2021 Time: 9.15am-10.30am https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/standards-and-research/research/surgical-trials-initiative/events/
Congratulations to John Glasbey for winning the 'Early Career Researcher prize' yesterday for a presentation at the UK PROMS meeting hosted by the University of Sheffield on TALON and the work collaboratively done together to co-produce 'Top tips for telephone follow-up' with patients, researchers, and the hub managers Below are some of [...]
Covidsurg research has been covered by over 1,000 media outlets across 54 countries.
Covidsurg has had an extensive global impact on Clinical Guidelines. Links to the top Covidsurg articles influencing guidelines: Mortality and pulmonary complications in patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international cohort study Click here to access The Lancet Publication Elective Cancer Surgery in COVID-19–Free Surgical Pathways During the SARS-CoV-2 [...]
CovidSurg researchers have published a paper examining ‘SARS-CoV-2 vaccination modelling for safe surgery to save lives: data from an international prospective cohort study’. Preoperative vaccinations could support a safe restart to elective surgery by reducing the rish of COVID-19 complications in patients significantly and helping to prevent COVID-19 related post-operative deaths. The full paper [...]
CovidSurg researchers have published a paper examining ‘Timing of surgery following SARS‐CoV‐2 infection: an international prospective cohort study’. The article published in The Association of anaesthetists details the findings that Elective surgery should be postponed for ≥7 weeks following SARS‐CoV‐2 infection to reduce the risk of postoperative mortality and pulmonary complications. Also patients who [...]
We open this eighth edition of the newsletter with the exciting news about our most recent publications which include the first paper from the GlobalSurg-CovidSurg study week. The paper looks at timing of surgery following SARS-CoV-2 infection and is available online today in the Anaesthesia journal. Another CovidSurg paper that considers the potential benefit of vaccination for [...]
