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cord-342680-1cr2ph8x	Sarpong, Nana O.	What’s Important: Redeployment of the Orthopaedic Surgeon During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from the Trenches	2020-04-14		.txt	text/plain	1431	75	57	However, our hospital's capacity, resources, and health-care personnel are rapidly dwindling as front-line workers are falling ill to COVID-19 or have been redeployed to de novo makeshift ICUs. The initial hospital response included the reallocation of capacity and resources, with our dedicated orthopaedic surgery operating rooms and suites being converted to ICUs shortly after the New York State order to cancel all elective surgeries 4 . To that end, every available practitioner in our orthopaedic department-including attending surgeons, fellows, residents, nurse practitioners, nurses, physician assistants, medical assistants, and support staff-has been redeployed to another area of the hospital with unmet need, particularly the ER and ICU. In our first redeployment shift in the ER, we expected the majority of patients to be coughing and dyspneic, and had prepared for a virus-driven cacophony by wearing an N95 respirator covered by a surgical mask and face shield.	./cache/cord-342680-1cr2ph8x.txt	./txt/cord-342680-1cr2ph8x.txt