Impact of asymptomatic COVID-19 patients in global surgical practice during the COVID-19 pandemic
Vittoria Bellato, Tsuyoshi Konishi, Gianluca Pellino, Yongbo An, Alfonso Piciocchi, Bruno Sensi, Leandro Siragusa, Karam Khanna, Brunella Maria Pirozzi, Marzia Franceschilli, Michela Campanelli, Sergey Efetov, Giuseppe Sica, Amaniel Kefleyesus, A. G. M. Hoofwijk, Abdullah S. Eldaly, Abel Gonzalez, Adraoui Jawad, Ahmad Jooma, Ahmed Mousa Hafez, Ainhoa Valle Rubio, Aitor Landaluce-Olavarria, Aiwen Wu, Akihisa Nagatsu, Akira Inoue, Akira Kanamoto, Akira Ouchi, Alaa El‐Hussuna, Alba Vázquez-Melero, Albert Wolthuis, Alberto M Peral, Alejandra Lozano, Aleksandr V. Efremov, Aleksandr V Ryasantsev, Alessandra Di Giorgio, Alessandro Parente, Alessandro Tamburrini, Alessio Alò, Alexander Forero-Torres, Alexander L. Vahrmeijer, Alexander Varabei, Alexander Siles Hinojosa, Ali Zeynel Abidin Balkan, Alice Frontali, Alikin Oleg, Álvaro Soler-Silva, Amin Makni, Ana André, Ana María García Cabrera, Ana María Gonzalez Fernández, Ana Minaya‐Bravo, Ana Rodríguez-Sánchez, Ana-Maria Mușină, Anang Pangeni, Anastasia Zolotko, A. Tonoyan, Andrea Balla, Andrea Belli, A Cavallaro, Andréa Chierici, Andrea Divizia, Andrea Fares Bucci, Andrea Jiménez Salido, Andrea Morini, Andrea Muratore, Andrea Vignali, Andrei Chitul, Diaconescu Andrei Sebastian, Andrejs Pčolkins, Andrey Shchegolev, Andrew Hollenbeck, Andrew D. Wisneski, Angelo Iossa, Anna D’Amore, Anndrew Hunter, Anthony J. Hesketh, Andrea La Brocca, Antonino Spinelli, Antonio C. F. Caires, Antonio d’Alessandro, Antonio Francisco Sanchís López Correo, Antonio Macrì, Antonio Navarro‐Sánchez, Apollo Pronk, Aram Akunc, Arash Mehri, Arie Pelta, Aristeidis Papadopoulos, Aristotelis Kechagias, Arshad Rashid, Artur Ramazanov, Ashfaq Chandio, A. Kohyama, Atsushi Nishimura, Atsushi Ohkawa, Audrius Dulskas, Aun Jamal, Aurora Mariani, Ayşe Gizem Ünal, Ayse Karagoz
Abstract
The rapid spread of COVID-19 has changed the global surgical care 1-3 . Patients infected with COVID-19 may present without typical symptoms, and such asymptomatic patients may potentially trigger in-hospital outbreaks by transmitting the disease to health care providers and other hospitalized patients 4, 5 . Further, asymptomatic COVID-19 patients have worse postoperative outcomes with an unexpectedly Table 1 Preoperatively asymptomatic COVID-19 patients by the countries' risk group Countries by risk group Overall High risk Int. risk Low risk