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cord-318333-rzhrgp5q	Hou, Jiabao	COVID-19 infection, a potential threat to surgical patients and staff? A retrospective cohort study	2020-09-03		.txt	text/plain	3264	204	50	BACKGROUND: This study aimed to describe the epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in surgical patients and medical staff. 8 In this study, we report the epidemiological and clinical characteristics, treatment, and outcomes of surgical patients with confirmed COVID-19 pneumonia infection and the infection transmission from surgical patients to medical staff. 10 Patients with COVID-19 pneumonia were considered positive for SARS-CoV-2 with the use of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended kit (BioGerm, Shanghai, China), following WHO guidelines for qRT-PCR, 5 or by chest computed tomographic (CT) scans. 10 In the early stage of this epidemic (before January 23th, 2020), the nucleic acid tests were performed only on the suspected surgical patients with fever more than 37.3 ℃ and/or pulmonary infection (Chest CT/X-R ray showing) when entering the operating room, and medical staff only used the surgical mask to protect themselves.	./cache/cord-318333-rzhrgp5q.txt	./txt/cord-318333-rzhrgp5q.txt