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authors: McDermott, Aoibhinn; O’Kelly, John; de Barra, Eoghan; Fitzpatrick, Fidelma; Little, Dilly M.; Davis, Niall F.
title: Perioperative Outcomes of Urological Surgery in Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Infection
date: 2020-05-16
journal: Eur Urol
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2020.05.012
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doc_id: 262020
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The global incidence of severe acute respiratory virus coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection continues to increase daily. To date, many urological centres have prioritised their patients for urgent surgical intervention because of a reduction in operating theatre availability and the risk of hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infection [1, 2] . The first confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the Republic of Ireland was diagnosed on February 29, 2020 and as of May 8, 2020, there have been 22 385 confirmed COVID-19 cases, which represents a case rate of 453.3 per 100 000 population [3] . Here we present our perioperative outcomes for patients undergoing urological surgery during the initial stage of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Ireland (between March 16 and May 1, 2020, inclusive).

Our hospital has an onsite microbiology laboratory that performs daily SARS-CoV-2 real- J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f Elective surgery was prioritised according to recent European guidelines and patients were then placed on a centralised departmental theatre waiting list [1] . Details on all elective and emergency urological procedures are summarised in Supplementary Table 1 and   Supplementary Table 2, 

The authors have nothing to disclose. 

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