GlobalSurg Newsletter New GlobalSurg Study announcement We are delighted to invite you to join our new study: GlobalSurg-CovidSurg Week The aims of GlobalSurg-CovidSurg Week are: To assess key global surgical indicators, including postoperative mortality. To determine the optimal timing of surgery following SARS-CoV-2 infection. All patients are eligible to be included regardless of their SARS-CoV-2 status, so all hospitals [...]
CovidSurg researchers have published a paper examining ‘Mortality and pulmonary complications in patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection’. The article published in The Lancet details the findings from the international multicentre CovidSurg cohort study in 235 hospitals in 24 countries. Data for 1,128 patients revealed that those undergoing surgery after contracting coronavirus are at [...]
Register here to join the second CovidSurg webinar: “CovidSurg: How can it change practice?” This will be a round table discussion to answer questions from collaborators and the wider surgical community. Please join us for an interactive live discussion. Watch the first webinar: Outcomes of the first 1129 CovidSurg patients
CovidSurg researchers have published a paper on ‘Elective surgery cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic: global predictive modelling to inform surgical recovery plans’. The paper, published in the British Journal of Surgery, projects that based on a 12-week period of peak disruption to hospital services due to COVID-19, 28.4 million elective surgeries worldwide will [...]
Over a thousand people from across the world joined the first of the CovidSurg lectures which presented and discussed outcomes from the first 1,100 patients in the CovidSurg studies, with the aim of informing data-driven decision-making. The lecture is available for viewing here .
