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work_b47i4e7syfbkxmt4tmw7enfmfq	Nickul S Jain	COVID-19 and the Role of Spine Surgeons	2020	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1270	94	49	2University of Southern California Spine Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA In the modern era, the scale and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented for both society and health care delivery systems. During this crisis, spine surgeons have a duty and obligation as physicians to focus care During a time where health care resources are limited and being depleted surgeons have a crucial role to play whereby they still treat patients with urgent and emergent spinal pathology while maximizing patient and provider safety and minimizing healthcare resource utilization. Furthermore, delaying elective surgery avoids potential prolonged postoperative inpatient stays, decreases the risk of nosocomial transmission of COVID-19 and avoids having When surgery is required, spine surgeons should take an active role taking the viral threat seriously and encourage appropriate perioperative and intraoperative precautions. As spine surgeons, being available and trained for redeployment into medical or COVID wards can help offset the burden of hospitalists, 	./cache/work_b47i4e7syfbkxmt4tmw7enfmfq.pdf	./txt/work_b47i4e7syfbkxmt4tmw7enfmfq.txt