Incidence of COVID-19 in pediatric surgical patients
Editor's Note The overall incidence of COVID-19 in children who had preoperative screening was less than 1%; however, this varied greatly between regions, ranging from 0.22% to 2.65%. Included in the study were pediatric patients presenting for surgery at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, and Seattle…
Joint Commission: Preventing nosocomial COVID-19 infections as healthcare organizations resume routine care
Editor's Note The Joint Commission on June 3 announced that it supports the following positions for healthcare organizations to prevent nosocomial COVID-19 infections as they resume routine patient care. Organizations should continue to follow CDC recommendations for universal masking of staff, patients, and visitors. Personnel should wear filtering facepiece (N95)…
COVID-19 patients have greatly increased risk of postop mortality
Editor's Note Patients having surgery after contracting COVID-19 are at greatly increased risk of postoperative death, this study finds. Researchers examined data for 1,128 patients from 235 hospitals in 24 countries. Overall 30-day postoperative mortality was 23.8%. Mortality was high across all subgroups including: elective surgery, 18.9% emergency surgery, 25.6%…
CMS to make some pandemic telehealth provisions permanent
Editor's Note The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator Seema Verma says use of telehealth has grown dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, and some provisions that were extended temporarily will be made permanent, the June 2 Becker’s Hospital Review reports. During the pandemic, CMS expanded access to telehealth…
Study: Response of cardiac surgery units to COVID-19
Editor's Note This study found reduced cardiac surgery activity, redeployed personnel, and curtailed educational and research activities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Survey respondents from 60 cardiac surgery centers in 19 countries said they had reduced their cardiac surgical procedures by an average of 50% to 75% in response…
CMS unveils enhanced enforcement actions for nursing homes based on COVID-19 data, inspections
Editor's Note The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on June 1 unveiled enhanced enforcement actions for nursing homes with violations of infection control practices. The enhanced and targeted accountability actions are based on trends in recent data regarding the incidence of COVID-19 in nursing homes and infection control…
Pediatric modification of scoring scale helps surgeons prioritize procedures during COVID-19
Editor's Note In this study, researchers found that a pediatric adaptation of the adult Medically Necessary Time-Sensitive (MeNTS) risk stratification system was a valuable decision tool that helped them prioritize surgical procedures in children during the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers tested the pediatric MeNTS (pMeNTS) in 101 patients scheduled for…
Joint Commission to resume some surveys, review activities
Editor's Note The Joint Commission on May 27 announced that it will begin to resume some survey and review activities in June, and account executives will be contacting organizations due for a survey. The Joint Commission is reviewing a variety of factors and criteria to help determine where and which…
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How OR Managers Can Save Capital Dollars with an Equipment-Sharing Initiative Post COVID-19 Wednesday, June 10, 2020 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET | 1 CE As hospitals resume their elective case schedule post COVID-19, there will be significant demand for capital equipment. Not only will case volume be…