Division of Neurosurgery, BIOMORF Department, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Division of Neurosurgery, BIOMORF Department, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
World Neurosurg. 2020 Jul;139:e812-e817. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.04.181. Epub 2020 Apr 30.
Since January 2020, when the pathogen causing the coronavirus disease was identified in humans, the literature on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has grown exponentially to more than 4000 publications. There is the need to provide an update for each single medical discipline, including neurosurgery, to be used by single professionals or to be distributed through the neurosurgical community and to be used by governments in designing new scenario of care.
A review of the MEDLINE database was performed on April 13, 2020. Search terms included "COVID-19," "neurosurgery," and "surgery." A review of documents published on the webpage of the WFNS (World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies) and of the 5 continental associations of neurosurgical societies, AANS (American Association of Neurological Surgeons), AASNS (Asian Australasian Society of Neurological Surgeons), CAANS (Continental Association of African Neurosurgical Societies), EANS (European Association of Neurosurgical Societies), and FLANC (Latin American Federation of Neurosurgical Societies), representing the 119 national neurosurgical societies around the world, was performed.
The literature search yielded 38 results that were manually reviewed. Fourteen manuscripts were considered eligible. They described suggestions and considerations to optimize care of neurosurgical patients, editorials on operational models, perspectives from neurosurgical departments, letters to the editor describing experiences on how to help medical staff to be prepared in advance for pandemic situations, and descriptions of regional or departmental models and/or organizational schemes. The webpages of the searched societies reported a total of 57 documents.
The neurosurgical scientific community has promptly reacted to the COVID-19 outbreak by producing a growing number of documents that could serve as guidance for neurosurgeons all over the world. Neurosurgical societies will represent the key institutions for guiding the neurosurgical community to overcome the COVID-19 crisis.
自 2020 年 1 月确定引起冠状病毒病的病原体以来，关于 2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）的文献呈指数级增长，超过 4000 篇。有必要为每个医学学科（包括神经外科）提供最新信息，供单个专业人员使用，或者通过神经外科学界分发，供各国政府在设计新的护理方案时使用。
于 2020 年 4 月 13 日对 MEDLINE 数据库进行了检索。检索词包括“COVID-19”“神经外科”和“手术”。还检索了 WFNS（世界神经外科学会联合会）网页和 AANS（美国神经外科学会）、AASNS（亚洲-大洋洲神经外科学会）、CAANS（非洲大陆神经外科学会联合会）、EANS（欧洲神经外科学会）和 FLANC（拉丁美洲神经外科学会联合会）这五个大陆神经外科学会协会的文件，这五个协会代表了全世界 119 个国家的神经外科学会。
文献检索得到 38 个结果，经人工审查，有 14 篇手稿被认为符合条件。它们描述了优化神经外科患者护理的建议和考虑因素、关于运营模式的社论、神经外科部门的观点、向编辑的信件，描述了如何帮助医务人员提前为大流行情况做好准备的经验，以及区域或部门模式和/或组织计划的描述。所搜索的协会的网页共报告了 57 份文件。
神经外科学术界对 COVID-19 疫情迅速做出反应，产生了越来越多的文件，可为世界各地的神经外科医生提供指导。神经外科学会将成为指导神经外科学界克服 COVID-19 危机的关键机构。
