COVID-19 and plastic surgery: a UK plastic surgery unit experience.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Khashaba, Haitham; Ng, Lisa; Osmani, Omer; Chalmers, Richard
- Source
- European Journal of Plastic Surgery. Dec2020, Vol. 43 Issue 6, p867-870. 4p.
- Subject
- *PLASTIC surgery
*COVID-19
*PLASTIC surgeons
*COVID-19 pandemic
*INFORMED consent (Medical law)
*AMBULATORY surgery
- Language
- ISSN
- 0930-343X
As a consequence of emergency planning and the shift of service provision, plastic surgery departments across the United Kingdom (UK) have had to quickly adopt new techniques and change existing practice in order to maintain and deliver essential plastic surgery services [[2]]. In the initial 6 weeks of the lockdown we have seen 468 patients (381 adult patients and 87 children) in the trauma setting, compared with 463 patients in a similar period in 2019. Patient consent No patient consent required as no patient data is used. [Extracted from the article]