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cord-286644-fafqg4i3	Paramore, Louise	Delivering urgent urological surgery during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the United Kingdom: Outcomes from our initial 52 patients.	2020-05-14		.txt	text/plain	1127	72	53	Since first reported in December 2019, the novel RNA betacoronavirus disease (COVID‐19) has spread rapidly across the world with, as of the 3rd May 2020, 3.3 million confirmed cases with more than 230,000 deaths worldwide and more than 200 countries affected. Current evidence shows an incubation period of up to 14 days post exposure to the virus, and on average most patients first display symptoms on day five after initial exposure. Even before then, hospitals in the National Health Service (NHS) had been preparing for a surge in demand by redeploying All patients had standard pre-COVID-19 pre-operative assessments with no COVID-19 swabs taken preceding surgery. Standard operating procedures were followed as per the Public Health England (PHE) COVID-19 infection control policy. 6 During the operation, standard Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for aerosol generating procedures were used by the anaesthetics team. Clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients undergoing surgeries during the incubation period of COVID-19 infection	./cache/cord-286644-fafqg4i3.txt	./txt/cord-286644-fafqg4i3.txt