id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-320877-1i0hzfjk KIYKAÇ ALTINBAŞ, Şadıman Gynecological laparoscopic surgery in the shade of COVID-19 pandemic 2020-06-23 .txt text/plain 2815 142 45 Non-urgent elective surgeries have been cancelled or postponed to free up beds for coronavirus critically ill patients, to allow the best use of medical resources for both the patients and the health care providers, and to reduce the contamination risk of healthy people. Although elective surgeries are limited during the COVID-19 pandemic, situations requiring an urgent gynaecological or obstetric surgical approach must still be performed. Although elective surgeries are limited during the COVID-19 pandemic, situations requiring an urgent gynaecological or obstetric surgical approach must still be performed. The routes chosen to perform the surgery either by open or by minimally invasive (laparoscopy, robotics or vaginally) techniques, it is vital to follow patient management algorithms prepared within the evidence during COVID-19 pandemic. When aerosol-generating procedures are performed, and until air exchanges have reduced the virus after the procedure, airborne precaution PPE is recommended and should be worn by all surgical staff within the OR during all operations, whether by laparoscopy or laparotomy [5, 15] . ./cache/cord-320877-1i0hzfjk.txt ./txt/cord-320877-1i0hzfjk.txt