id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cord-264449-p3tgjuj4	Majumdar, PK	Orthopaedic Surgery in Times of COVID-19 in India	2020-07-17		.txt	text/plain	1734	92	45	The fear of asymptomatic carriers in patients and colleagues should not weigh on the decision to operate but should be evaluated by the urgency of the procedure; existing and anticipated COVID-19 cases in the hospital and region; availability of PPE, beds and staff; and finally, age and health of the patient. In one of Indonesian public hospitals, Orthopaedic surgeons are only allowed to perform surgeries on emergency, malignancy, and infection cases, whereas elective surgeries shall be postponed indefinitely. To lessen the number of visits, some Orthopaedic surgeons extend the length of post-operative joint replacement stay of their patients up to 10-14 days to receive the multidisciplinary care, including rehabilitation and wound care. Evidence of COVID-19 transmission from asymptomatic individuals 1 brings challenges to orthopaedic practice in terms of nosocomial transmission, isolation and cohorting requirements and increased post operative complications in undetected individuals. Pre-and post-operative screening in limited-term elective cancer surgery patients during the COVID-19 pandemic	./cache/cord-264449-p3tgjuj4.txt	./txt/cord-264449-p3tgjuj4.txt