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Early experience with universal preoperative and pre-procedural screening for COVID-19 in low-risk pediatric surgical patients requiring general anesthesia

Sii CKS 1 , Lee JA 1 , Nah SA 2

Affiliations 

  • 1 Division of Paediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 2 Division of Paediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. shireen.nah@ummc.edu.my
Pediatr Surg Int, 2020 Dec;36(12):1407-1411.
PMID: 33068142 DOI: 10.1007/s00383-020-04760-7

Abstract

PURPOSE: The COVID-19 pandemic has placed extraordinary demands on healthcare services worldwide. Some have reported increased viral transmission to healthcare workers during aerosol-generating procedures such as intubation. We report our experience with universal preoperative and preprocedural screening for COVID-19 in children requiring general anaesthesia with low risk of having the infection.

METHODS: This was a data review involving children aged 

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