Department of Neurological Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA.
World Neurosurg. 2021 Apr;148:251-255. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.11.167.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted neurosurgery in unforeseeable ways. Neurosurgical patient care, research, and education have undergone extraordinary modifications as medicine and mankind have adapted to overcome the challenges posed by this pandemic. Some changes will disappear as the situation slowly recovers to a prepandemic status quo. Others will remain: This pandemic has sparked some long-overdue systemic transformations across all levels of medicine, including in neurosurgery, that will be beneficial in the future. In this paper, we present some of the challenges faced across different levels of neurosurgical clinical care, research, and education, the changes that followed, and how some of these modifications have transformed into opportunities for improvement and growth in the future.
COVID-19 大流行以难以预料的方式影响了神经外科学。随着医学和人类适应这一大流行带来的挑战,神经外科患者的护理、研究和教育经历了非凡的改变。随着情况慢慢恢复到大流行前的状态,一些变化将会消失。另一些变化则会保留下来:这场大流行在包括神经外科在内的所有医学领域引发了一些长期以来姗姗来迟的系统性变革,这些变革在未来将是有益的。在本文中,我们介绍了神经外科临床护理、研究和教育不同层面所面临的挑战、随之而来的改变,以及这些改变如何转化为未来改进和发展的契机。