id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-330464-j4o7m9ck Ng, Jun Jie Experience from a Singapore tertiary hospital with restructuring a vascular surgery practice in response to national and institutional policies during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-05-23 .txt text/plain 2592 146 55 authors: Ng, Jun Jie; Gan, Tiffany R.X.; Niam, Jen Yong; Menon, Raj K.; Ho, Pei; Dharmaraj, Rajesh B.; Wong, Julian C.L.; Choong, Andrew M.T.L. title: Experience from a Singapore tertiary hospital with restructuring a vascular surgery practice in response to national and institutional policies during the COVID-19 pandemic The initial surge in COVID-19 cases in late January 6 and February can be attributed to travellers from China visiting Singapore and causing limited 7 local transmission. Segregated team model 23 After the DORSCON alert level system was raised to orange on 7 February 2020, our 1 vascular surgery unit immediately adopted a segregated team model as part of its business 2 continuity plan. Thus far, we have not However, due to the various institutional policies implemented for COVID-19, the 21 amount of elective vascular surgery cases such as pre-emptive dialysis access creation, and 22 venous surgery have fallen. ./cache/cord-330464-j4o7m9ck.txt ./txt/cord-330464-j4o7m9ck.txt