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cord-294064-vdpak3fm	Iqbal, Muhammad Rafaih	Single centre concept of ‘cold site’ elective surgery during the peak of COVID-19 pandemic: A cohort study	2020-10-06		.txt	text/plain	3028	190	59	title: Single centre concept of 'cold site' elective surgery during the peak of COVID-19 pandemic: A cohort study Our hospital utilised local private hospital as a dedicated cold site (CS) for urgent elective surgery during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. CONCLUSION: Urgent elective surgery is safe and feasible during the COVID-19 pandemic if a dedicated cold site is available. A mortality of 19% has been reported in a recent study on 278 patients undergoing elective surgery who were diagnosed with COVID-19 peri-operatively (6) . This was a retrospective review of a prospectively maintained database of consecutive patients undergoing urgent elective surgery at the dedicated CS during the COVID-19 pandemic. J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f ¨ This study reports findings of a dedicated cold site elective surgery during the peak of COVID-19 pandemic.	./cache/cord-294064-vdpak3fm.txt	./txt/cord-294064-vdpak3fm.txt