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Author: Cook, T. M.; Harrop‐Griffiths, W.
Title: Kicking on while it’s still kicking off – getting surgery and anaesthesia restarted after COVID‐19
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  • Document date: 2020_6_1
  • ID: frawgvk7
    Snippet: The UK National Health Service (NHS) has risen to the challenge posed by COVID-19 through Herculean efforts to expand capacity. This has included doubling or trebling intensive care (ICU) capacity within hospitals, augmenting this with Nightingale Hospitals, cancelling all non-emergency surgery and redeploying staff and equipment to focus on a single disease. At the same time, government and population efforts have - through social distancing then lockdown- successfully flattened the epidemic cu
    Document: The UK National Health Service (NHS) has risen to the challenge posed by COVID-19 through Herculean efforts to expand capacity. This has included doubling or trebling intensive care (ICU) capacity within hospitals, augmenting this with Nightingale Hospitals, cancelling all non-emergency surgery and redeploying staff and equipment to focus on a single disease. At the same time, government and population efforts have - through social distancing then lockdown- successfully flattened the epidemic curve and so reduced demand. Together, these actions have enabled treatment of all those needing hospital care for COVID-19 and avoided the unfettered increase in mortality that would have accompanied an overwhelmed healthcare service.

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