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cord-309909-60nrhl3t	Brumit, Ryan	Surgical Case Deferment During a Global Pandemic	2020-06-03		.txt	text/plain	1392	70	55	MGH evolved the ACS guidelines to specifically include the following patient/disease states to have ongoing surgery: Beyond those directly involved in the process of deferring surgical cases, Nursing and Anesthesia must be kept well informed of significant drops in OR volume, as their staff are crucial in times of crisis and will be needed for redeployment to support other critical care needs within the hospital. 58 blocked operating rooms open and available on the OR scheduling grid meant there was no visual guidance for where non-deferrable cases should be placed. Nurses were calling patients and conducting interviews for noticeably deferrable cases, simply because they were scheduled for a date of surgery beyond the two-week deferment window. In this time, the deferment rate has dropped from 48% (weeks 1 & 2) to 92%, leaving only 25 non-deferrable cases on the schedule across 10 days (weeks 5 & 6) ( fig.	./cache/cord-309909-60nrhl3t.txt	./txt/cord-309909-60nrhl3t.txt