Operation COVID - Best operating room practice in COVID-19
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Beamish, Andrew
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- Subject
- Medical Sciences
Medicine and Health Sciences
Medical Specialties
COVID-19
OpCOVID
Diseases
Surgery
Theatre
Operating room
Operation
Operation COVID
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Summary Background: Guidance on surgical practice in the presence of suspected or proven coronavirus infection is lacking. A rapid systematic review of the literature will be conducted, but an initial scoping search confirms an anticipated paucity of relevant literature. It is therefore necessary to combine this with a novel approach to identifying and collating global practice and evidence and achieving early consensus on appropriate operating room (OR) practice in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Standard methodology (PRISMA) rapid systematic review of operating room practices and guidance in relation to COVID-19. Development and employment of novel methodology – Rapid Iterative Collaborative Evaluation (RICE). This involves the use of social media to bring together as many stakeholders as possible to engage in the four phases of RICE: Phase 1 – Collate questions. What questions do stakeholders need the answers to? Phase 2 – Answer questions. Using the literature, including scientific principles and borrowing from similar fields; also seeking answers from the stakeholders themselves. Phase 3 – Initial consensus. Rapid modified Delphi process to determine which questions reach consensus to influence practice and, importantly, identifying those which are not answered to consensus. This identifies the relevant unanswered research questions for future work to address important gaps in knowledge. The statements will also be mapped to existing guidance documents to validate their content using international global experts. Phase 4 – Iterative development. The project remains open to iterative evidence collation as the field rapidly evolves.