STOP ELECTIVE SURGERIES, FOR NOW – AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS (Orthopedics This Week)
HIGHLIGHT - "Orthopedic product suppliers can expect a dramatic reduction in scheduled surgeries over the next few months, but then an equally dramatic surge in scheduled surgeries"
Friday, March 13, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) recommended that every U.S. hospital, health system and surgeon “minimize, postpone or cancel electively scheduled operations, endoscopies or other invasive procedures.”
The daily trajectory of COVID-19 cases is likely, according to the ACS, to put an enormous strain on U.S. hospitals for beds, respirators and other resources (including staff) and urgent action is required to prepare for the developing flood of COVID-19 cases.
The ACS is asking:
“Each hospital, health system, and surgeon should thoughtfully review all scheduled elective procedures with a plan to minimize, postpone, or cancel electively scheduled operations, endoscopies, or other invasive procedures until we have passed the predicted inflection point in the exposure graph and can be confident that our health care infrastructure can support a potentially rapid and overwhelming uptick in ...
