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cord-291686-kgewmqg5	Patel, Surendra	Prioritizing cardiovascular surgical care in COVID‐19 pandemic: Shall we operate or defer?	2020-07-15		.txt	text/plain	1620	98	46	Moreover there is lack of sufficient data regarding impact of COVID-19 on post operative outcomes in patients who were infected with novel coronavirus and underwent cardiac and thoracic procedures. Peng et al 3 reported that patient who underwent thoracic surgery at the time of pandemic and later found to be affected with the novel coronavirus had greater than anticipated incidence of severe illness as well as case fatality rate, thus emphasizing the importance of correct triage and prioritizing cases to be considered for cardiac and thoracic surgery. 14 American college of surgeons has defined triage guidelines for vascular surgery patients, 8 and have provided guidelines regarding whether to postpone or not, vascular surgical procedures including, ascending aortic aneurysm, peripheral aneurysms, aortic dissection, mesenteric ischemia, peripheral vascular disease, trauma, venous thromboembolism, and amputation of limbs (Table 2) .	./cache/cord-291686-kgewmqg5.txt	./txt/cord-291686-kgewmqg5.txt