COVID-19 Essentials for Surgeons

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

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🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Critical information on COVID-19 and how it impacts us as surgeons, and how we can help in the fight.

Dr. Sharmila Dissanaike – Chair of the Texas Tech Department of Surgery

-Discusses preparing her department of surgery for COVID

Dr. Angela Hewlett – Medical Director of the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit

-Breaks down the basics of this virus from an ID perspective

Dr. Christian Jones – Director of the Acute Care Surgery Fellowship at Johns Hopkins

-Discusses how we can safe when managing these patients

Dr. Vahagn Nikolian – Fellow At Columbia University in Abdominal Wall Reconstruction

- Discusses how to implement telemedicine into practice

Corona Virus Info

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

https://emcrit.org/ibcc/covid19/

Johns Hopkins Corona Virus Map

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

How to properly put on and remove PPE (seems silly but is important)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CChf0-enyp0

Resources for learning about Vents

Propofology.com/non-icu.html

Transcript

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0:00.0	Behind the knife, the Surgery Podcast, where we take a behind the scenes intimate look at surgery
0:06.0	from leaders in the Knife. Today we really wanted to get out a breaking
0:26.2	episode to you guys about COVID and how it affects us as surgeons and how we can prepare for this
0:30.6	and our hospitals and how we can best take care of patients.
0:34.0	We're going to start this episode off where we're lucky enough to have Dr.
0:38.0	Charmila Desanayika. She is the professor and chief of the Department of
0:42.4	Surgery at Texas Tech and she's joining us today to talk about how she's preparing her hospital and the impacts this has on surgeons.
0:51.0	And later throughout the episode we're going to hear from an ID expert.
0:55.7	We're also going to hear from Dr. Christian Jones about actually treating these patients
0:58.6	and what that entails.
1:00.1	And then we're going to finish this episode with a telemedicine, discussion.
1:03.0	So Dr. Dissonaica, thank you for joining us on Behind the Knife and welcome.
1:08.0	Thank you very much.
1:10.0	I'm excited to be here.
1:11.0	So, Dr. Dissonnika, we're you know just kind of in the early stages of
1:16.4	dealing with COVID and I think the reality is starting to sink in across the
1:21.5	country that's as surgeons were not immune to this process.
1:27.0	Can you just kind of give us, you know, the ACS recently released a recommendation as far as, you know, what we should be doing with regard to
1:37.1	elective versus acute care surgery cases that are the CDC has a recommendation out there.
1:41.9	How are you at your facility dealing with these
1:44.4	recommendations and how are you preparing for the you know the co- the the pandemic
1:50.6	that's that's happening. Well, thank you.
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