Letter: Precautions for Endoscopic Transnasal Skull Base Surgery during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Neurosurgery

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2020, Pages E66-E67

  Patel, Zara M ^a   Fernandez Miranda, Juan ^a   Hwang, Peter H ^a   Nayak, Jayakar V ^a   Dodd, Robert ^a   Sajjadi, Hamed ^a   Jackler, Robert K ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronavirus; COVID 19; Endoscopic surgery; Extended endoscopic skull base surgery; Personal protective equipment (PPE); Powered air purifying respirators (PAPR); Transmission

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ANESTHESIOLOGIST; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; LETTER; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOSE SURGERY; OPHTHALMOLOGIST; OTOLARYNGOLOGIST; PANDEMIC; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKULL SURGERY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; LABORATORY TECHNIQUE; MASS SCREENING; NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSLUMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; NEUROENDOSCOPY; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKULL BASE; SURGERY;

BETACORONAVIRUS; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; MASS SCREENING; NATURAL ORIFICE ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; NEUROENDOSCOPY; OTOLARYNGOLOGY; PANDEMICS; PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKULL BASE;

EID: 85083865918     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: 15244040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/neuros/nyaa125     Document Type: Letter

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