Urology Department, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
ORSI Academy, Melle, Belgium.
BJU Int. 2020 Jun;125(6):E7-E14. doi: 10.1111/bju.15071. Epub 2020 May 12.
To discuss the impact of COVID-19 on global health, particularly on urological practice and to review some of the available recommendations reported in the literature.
In the current narrative review the PubMed database was searched to identify all the related reports discussing the impact of COVID-19 on the urological field.
The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest and biggest global health threat. Medical and surgical priorities have changed dramatically to cope with the current challenge. These changes include postponements of all elective outpatient visits and surgical procedures to save facilities and resources for urgent cases and patients with COVID-19 patients. This review discuss some of the related changes in urology.
Over the coming weeks, healthcare workers including urologists will be facing increasingly difficult challenges, and consequently, they should adopt triage strategy to avoid wasting of medical resources and they should endorse sufficient protection policies to guard against infection when dealing with COVID-19 patients.
讨论 COVID-19 对全球健康的影响，特别是对泌尿外科实践的影响，并回顾文献中报道的一些可用建议。
在目前的叙述性综述中，检索了 PubMed 数据库，以确定所有讨论 COVID-19 对泌尿外科领域影响的相关报告。
COVID-19 大流行是最新的、最大的全球健康威胁。为应对当前的挑战，医疗和手术重点发生了巨大变化。这些变化包括推迟所有非紧急门诊就诊和手术，以节省设施和资源用于紧急情况和 COVID-19 患者。这篇综述讨论了泌尿外科的一些相关变化。
在接下来的几周内，包括泌尿科医生在内的医护人员将面临越来越大的挑战，因此，他们应该采取分诊策略，避免浪费医疗资源，并且在处理 COVID-19 患者时，应支持足够的保护政策以防止感染。
