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id: cord-258344-55n3wwle
author: Khalafallah, Adham M.
date: 2020-08-08
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title:
  In Reply to the Letter to the Editor Regarding “Impact of COVID-19 on an Academic Neurosurgery Department: The Johns Hopkins Experience”

summary:
  We agree that it is crucial for neurosurgeons to begin clearing patient 12 backlogs of canceled elective cases to avoid disease progression and worse prognosis among Impact of COVID-19 on an Academic Neurosurgery Department: The Johns Hopkins Experience The end of social confinement and COVID-19 re-emergence risk Expected impact of lockdown in Île-de-France and possible exit strategies An Exit Strategy for Resuming Nonemergency Neurosurgery after Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2: A United Kingdom Perspective Cancer Surgery Scheduling During and After the COVID-19 First Wave: The MD Anderson Cancer Center Experience The Return Back to Typical Practice from the Battle Plan of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparative Study Tracking the Volume of Neurosurgical Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic Elective surgery cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic: global predictive modelling to inform surgical recovery plans Letter: Safety Considerations for Neurosurgical Procedures During the COVID-19 Pandemic Letter: A Guide to the Prioritization of Neurosurgical Cases After the COVID-19 Pandemic SARS-CoV-2 Impact on Elective Orthopaedic Surgery: Implications for Post-Pandemic Recovery key: cord-258344-55n3wwle authors: Khalafallah, Adham M.; Jimenez, Adrian E.; Mukherjee, Debraj title: In Reply to the Letter to the Editor Regarding “Impact of COVID-19 on an Academic Neurosurgery Department: The Johns Hopkins Experience” date: 2020-08-08 journal: World Neurosurg DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.08.033 sha: doc_id: 258344 cord_uid: 55n3wwle nan The authors thank Dr. Venkataram and colleagues for their thoughtful and thorough 1 analysis of our recent study Impact of COVID-19 on an Academic Neurosurgery Department: 2


id: cord-267579-gkvd0fol
author: Yang, Xiaoyu
date: 2020-07-27
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title:
  Asymptomatic Carrier Transmission of COVID-19 and The Multi-Point Aerosol Sampling to Assess Risks in OR During Pandemic Period

summary:
  Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China Clinical characteristics of 24 asymptomatic infections with COVID-19 screened among close contacts in Nanjing SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load in Upper Respiratory Specimens of Infected Patients Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period Evidence of airborne transmission of the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus Systematic Comparison of Two Animal-to-Human Transmitted Human Coronaviruses: SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV Practical recommendations for critical care and anesthesiology teams caring for novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) patients Bioaerosol Sampling for Respiratory Viruses in Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit To achieve this, asymptomatic patients has been comprised in the daily report and released by the government of the People's Republic of China from 1 April 2020.


id: cord-326089-8234mcdk
author: Sweid, Ahmad
date: 2020-06-13
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title:
  Incidence of Acute Ischemic Stroke and Rate of Mechanical Thrombectomy During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Large Tertiary Care Telemedicine Network

summary:
  www.worldstroke.org/news-and-blog/news/stroke-care-and-the-covid19-pandemic Accessed 5 Cardiovascular considerations for patients, health care workers, and health systems during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic Thromboinflammation and the hypercoagulability of COVID-19 Coagulopathy and Antiphospholipid Antibodies in Patients with Covid-19 Temporary Emergency Guidance to US Stroke Centers During the COVID-19 Pandemic Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery recommendations for the care of emergent neurointerventional patients in the setting of covid-19 The authors have no conflict of interest to report. 1, 2 The higher incidence of COVID-19 patients in the overall stroke group can be supported by recent theories that systemic COVID-19 may contribute to a hyper-thrombotic state and increase the risk of AIS.


id: cord-335642-i0a1si8k
author: Lozada-Martínez, Ivan
date: 2020-11-03
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title:
  Letter to the Editor: ”Role of the Neurosurgeon in Times of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): The Importance of Focus in Critical Care”

summary:
  This consensus in particular sets a road map for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with COVID-19 in a didactic way, as well as a protocol to be followed in intensive care units to facilitate the patient admission process, triage establishment, isolation management, disinfection of the medical equipment and the environment, waste disposal, highly specialized personal protective equipment use, airway management, and ventilatory support, and finally evaluation of neurologic diseases such as stroke, epileptic status, and neuroimmune and neuromuscular diseases, among others. Some authors who have reported the execution of similar changes point out that these transformations have implied real challenges, since they have needed to be rapidly trained in critical care to be able to establish and provide quality support treatment.


id: cord-027854-o511h1my
author: Moscote-Salazar, Luis Rafael
title: Letter to the Editor: SARS-CoV-2 and Traumatic Cervical Acute Spinal Cord Injury: An Appraisal
date: 2020-06-25
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summary:
  There is a link between the response of the immune system in spinal cord injury, and how it contributes to neuronal and oligodendrocyte apoptosis and axonal demyelination. In the United States, approximately 12,000 people suffer from spinal injuries with the respective neurological sequelae.


id: cord-276067-3io0xux2
author: Kanmounye, Ulrick Sidney
title: COVID-19 and Neurosurgical Education in Africa: Making lemonade from lemons
date: 2020-05-21
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  While the post-COVID surprised and tested our health systems, post-COVID African neurosurgical education must reinvent itself and transform its potential into achievements. This unfortunate event presents an innovative opportunity for neurosurgical education in Africa.


id: cord-258562-raubqnko
author: Murlimanju, Bukkambudhi V.
date: 2020-09-23
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title:
  Letter to Editor Regarding: “Decrease in Neurosurgical Program Volume During COVID-19: Residency Programs Must Adapt”

summary:
  It is important to note that most neurosurgical residency programs are provided in academic hospitals, which are mainly based in urban centers. It will be very useful if the interns could be given more number of days in neurosurgical training because they might have been exposed to a very small number of neurosurgical patients owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.


id: cord-319268-mqxwwwcd
author: Raj, Sumit
date: 2020-11-03
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title:
  Letter to the Editor Regarding: “Case Volumes and Perioperative COVID-19 Incidence in Neurosurgical Patients During a Pandemic: Experiences at Two Tertiary Care Centers in Washington, DC”

summary:
  Case volumes and perioperative COVID-19 incidence in neurosurgical patients during a pandemic: experiences at two tertiary care centers in COVID-19 transmission through asymptomatic carriers is a challenge to containment. Although some attempts have been made to address perioperative COVID-19 transmission, its true incidence is not known.


id: cord-348442-nk3mbwdj
author: O'Kelly, Cian
title: Letter to the Editor: Pandemic (COVID-19) Proctoring for eCLIPs Neurointervention
date: 2020-09-23
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  With rapid introduction of novel technology in the field of neurointervention, in-person case proctoring has traditionally been used for the effective and safe dissemination of the use of new endovascular devices. A proctor can also be given multiple image displays and views of the procedure tables by inviting more devices to the meeting.


id: cord-312345-gn6mwun0
author: Kanmounye, Ulrick Sidney
title: Letter to the Editor: COVID-19 & Neurosurgical Training in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
date: 2020-09-23
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  4 Neurosurgery Unit, Department of Surgical and Medico-Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy Global neurosurgery: the current capacity and deficit in the provision of essential neurosurgical care. 4 To coordinate the efforts of global neurosurgeons, the WFNS has created an ad-hoc committee: the WFNS GNC.


id: cord-258293-7q9zj8c2
author: Marini, Alessandra
date: 2020-05-26
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title:
  Letter to the Editor Regarding 'Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Neurosurgery: Literature and Neurosurgical Societies Recommendations Update'

summary:
  During the last three months, from February to 1 April 2020, despite the halving of the elective cases in the weekly schedule, due to the re-distribution of the 2 staff, the number of oncological patients who underwent a surgical treatment in our department was 3 approximately analogous to the same time-period in 2019 (February-April, 49 patients in 2020 and 45 patients 4 in 2019). In such intense atmosphere, neurosurgical departments 9 are balancing between the urgent and emergency cases, public-opinion concerns about transmission and the 0 safety of the staff and patients.


id: cord-307013-80dup4sr
author: Lu, Victor M.
date: 2020-08-24
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title:
  Letter to the Editor: Lessons to Learn from the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic for International Medical Graduate Applicants and United States Neurosurgery Residency Programs

summary:
  Estimates suggest 6%e8% of all residents in U.S. neurosurgery residency programs are indeed IMGs, 1,2 typically supported by either a J-1 (exchange) or H1-B (work) visa. The number of possible flights to the United States decreased, including from Lebanon 3 and India, 4 the 2 largest contributors of IMG residents to U.S. neurosurgery programs.


id: cord-337269-bh3qbn3q
author: Bajracharya, Aliza
date: 2020-06-11
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title:
  Scoping the perplexing effect of the COVID pandemic in Nepal, and the appraisal for precautionary measures from its lurking aftermath

summary:
  This pandemic has also eclipsed other health issues that shouldn't be neglected. This can magnify efficiencies, effectiveness, and enhance the quality of health services.


id: cord-317965-pini4eqw
author: Al Saiegh, Fadi
title: Virtual Residency Training Interviews in the Age of COVID-19 and Beyond
date: 2020-10-06
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summary:
  Because virtual interviews obviate the need to travel, more interviews can be planned to group the applicants from the same time zone. When planning virtual interviews, one challenge will be scheduling applicants from different time zones.


id: cord-339478-v7by6dnp
author: Kessler, Remi A.
date: 2020-05-08
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title:
  Changes in Neurosurgery Resident Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Institutional Experience from a Global Epicenter

summary:
  One of the first changes made was expanded resident coverage to staffing this older neurosurgical ICU and junior residents responsible for call every third night. 4 A number of programs have reported reducing resident staffing by 50% with teams rotating one week at a time, while the rest of the residents remain at home.


id: cord-322052-zsbisk3b
author: Bohórquez-Rivero, José
date: 2020-08-24
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title:
  Letter to the Editor: Humanization of Neurosurgery: Incorporation of a New Concept in Times of COVID-19

summary:
  This attitude on the part of physicians can produce despair and provoke an emotional crisis in patients. Challenges neurosurgeons are facing include, among others, the advent of new technologies, an increasingly impersonal physician-patient relationship, loss of interest in the emotional aspects of the patient, differences in public versus private care, loss of autonomy to make decisions about patients, loss of interest in performing an adequate physical examination, and hospitals becoming increasingly less humanized.


id: cord-267618-ots27qks
author: Molliqaj, Granit
date: 2020-05-08
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title:
  How Neurosurgeons Are Coping with COVID-19 and How It Impacts Our Neurosurgical Practice: Report from Geneva University Medical Center

summary:
  The fact that we have assigned 50% of our residents to COVID-19 units does not prevent us from ensuring that they maintain a minimum level of training. However, as the technical platform in private clinics does not allow for complex cranial surgery, some of our complex surgeries, such as ruptured arteriovenous cerebral malformations or ruptured aneurysms, had to be transferred to other Swiss university hospitals, which were and are less impacted by the COVID-19 situation.


id: cord-256117-t9v1hng5
author: Al Kasab, Sami
date: 2020-06-03
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title:
  Acute Stroke Management During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: From Trough of Disillusionment to Slope of Enlightenment

summary:
  3 Given that approximately 35% of patients with COVID-19 are asymptomatic and the growing awareness that asymptomatic patients are able to transmit the virus, this screening might not be sufficient. Patients ruled out for LVO can remain at the spoke for routine care, even those who receive intravenous thrombolysis, particularly those spokes that are primary stroke center certified.


id: cord-330728-tul659fr
author: Zaed, Ismail
date: 2020-06-11
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title:
  How is COVID-19 going to affect education in neurosurgery? A step toward a new era of educational training

summary:
  In more recent times, VR technologies started to be used also 124 in surgical fields, allowing an enhanced training of surgical skills. 125 It is possible to imagine that in a near future, virtual meeting platforms can be combined with VR 136 technology to provide participants with a real-time feel compared to watching a screen, improving different 137 aspects of the meetings, such as watching live surgeries, being able to interact with the surgical team.


id: cord-328869-2qmgjdc1
author: Goyal, Anshit
date: 2020-06-10
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title:
  Survey of Academic US Programs Regarding the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Clinical Practice, Education and Research in Neurosurgery

summary:
  However, a few weeks following this directive, multiple state administrations lifted the embargo on elective procedures after ongoing evaluation of case numbers and considering the potential adverse impact of persistent cancellation on other non-COVID patients and financial risk to hospitals. With regards to endonasal procedures: Approximately 42% of respondents suggested that additional levels of PPE such as face shields, N95 masks and PAPR were used in case surgery could not be postponed in a known COVID positive patient.


id: cord-334280-qs40g1fz
author: Jella, Tarun K.
title: Geospatial Distribution of Neurosurgeons Age 60 and Above Relative to the Spread of COVID-19
date: 2020-10-14
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  key: cord-334280-qs40g1fz authors: Jella, Tarun K.; Desai, Ansh; Jella, Taral; Steinmetz, Michael; Kimmell, Kristopher; Wright, James; Wright, Christina Huang title: Geospatial Distribution of Neurosurgeons Age 60 and Above Relative to the Spread of COVID-19 date: 2020-10-14 journal: World Neurosurg DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.10.037 sha: doc_id: 334280 cord_uid: qs40g1fz Objective To perform an ecological study in order to analyze the geospatial distribution of neurosurgeons ≥ 60 years old and compare these data with the spread of COVID-19 across the; U.S. Methods Data regarding the distribution of COVID-19 cases was collected from the Environmental Systems Research Institute and demographic statistics from the American Association of Medical Colleges 2019State Workforce Reports. Results As of July 5, 2020, the 10 states with the highest number of COVID-19 cases showed older neurosurgical workforce proportions (the proportion of active surgeons aged 60 years or older) ranging from 20.6% to 38.9%.


id: cord-320065-zxh8u4eg
author: Patel, Pious D.
title: Tracking the Volume of Neurosurgical Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic
date: 2020-06-27
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  Neurosurgical volume was compared between these periods. The long-term impacts of reduced neurosurgical volume and increased telehealth utilization on patient outcomes should be explored.


id: cord-292429-28mwv9f7
author: Miranda, Stephen P.
title: Incorporating telehealth to improve neurosurgical training during the COVID-19 pandemic
date: 2020-05-17
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  These measures have almost immediately eliminated the traditional educational experiences available to neurosurgical residents. While general surgery trainees have been characterized by accommodating and converging learning styles, early work in Taiwan has shown that neurosurgical residents typically exhibit diverging learning styles and progress toward an assimilating learning style as training progresses 15 .


id: cord-325649-zzhsrytw
author: Rispoli, Rossella
date: 2020-08-07
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title:
  Spine surgery in Italy in the COVID-19 era: Proposal for assessing and responding to the regional state of emergency

summary:
  The alert level data points relative to the FVG Region of northeast Italy are shown in white points in The proposal for prioritizing surgical activities in relation to health care system alert levels is given in All these patients were admitted urgently due to the onset with neurological deficits and, in one case, for early signs of infection. By the time of the World Health Organization (WHO) classification of the novel coronavirus as a global pandemic (1) , many hospitals in northern Italy were already overcrowded by COVID-19 patients, especially intensive care units, where about 50% of all available ICU beds were occupied by COVID-19 patients ( 2 ) .


id: cord-329704-vnazexhj
author: Pelargos, Panayiotis E.
title: An Evaluation of Neurosurgical Practices During the COVID-19 Pandemic
date: 2020-10-13
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  Neurosurgeons in solo private practice were more likely to stop operating than their 124 peers in other practice types (19.4% vs. 6.4%, p=.007). Those in solo private practices were disproportionately affected as 221 nearly 20% closed their outpatient clinics in response to the pandemic, a statistically significant 222 percentage compared to other practice types.


id: cord-310288-onr700ue
author: Sciubba, Daniel M.
date: 2020-05-29
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title:
  Scoring system to triage patients for spine surgery in the setting of limited resources: Application to the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

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  key: cord-310288-onr700ue authors: Sciubba, Daniel M.; Ehresman, Jeff; Pennington, Zach; Lubelski, Daniel; Feghali, James; Bydon, Ali; Chou, Dean; Elder, Benjamin D.; Elsamadicy, Aladine A.; Goodwin, C. Rory; Goodwin, Matthew L.; Harrop, James; Klineberg, Eric O.; Laufer, Ilya; Lo, Sheng-Fu L.; Neuman, Brian J.; Passias, Peter G.; Protopsaltis, Themistocles; Shin, John H.; Theodore, Nicholas; Witham, Timothy F.; Benzel, Edward C. title: Scoring system to triage patients for spine surgery in the setting of limited resources: Application to the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond date: 2020-05-29 journal: World Neurosurg DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.05.233 sha: doc_id: 310288 cord_uid: onr700ue Abstract Background As of May 04, 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected over 3.5 million people and touched every inhabited continent. 202 203 204 Limitations 205 As with scoring systems published in other domains of neurosurgery, the present scoring system 206 is not intended to be prescriptive in its guidance.


id: cord-334521-sa0eyzq7
author: Ramos-Fresnedo, Andres
title: Neurosurgical Interactive Teaching Series: A Multidisciplinary Educational Approach
date: 2020-09-18
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summary:
  54 55 The structure of the case presentations is based on recommendations by the American Board of 57 Neurological Surgery (ABNS) for case studies. This process is based on the recommendations by the ABNS for case studies.


id: cord-311588-ocz2rzy7
author: Gilligan, Jeffrey
title: Collateral Damage During the COVID-19 Pandemic
date: 2020-05-14
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summary:
  What remains unknown is how many patients with known or unknown pathologies are having progression of a deficit (i.e. worsening vision secondary to a supersellar mass or worsening cervical myelopathy) that would otherwise have brought them to seek urgent medical care. The support network, that is often the catalyst to seek medical care, and also the system that provides for them in times of convalescence, must be reestablished.


id: cord-273522-ygd19p05
author: Rothrock, Robert J.
title: By the Numbers Analysis of COVID-19’s Effect on a Neurosurgical Residency at the Epicenter
date: 2020-07-17
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summary:
  Neurosurgical cases during the crisis were analyzed and compared to seven-week periods from 2019 and 2020. Neurosurgical cases during the crisis were analyzed and compared to seven-week 14 periods from 2019 and 2020.


id: cord-303000-tmk2c9eh
author: Alhaj, Ahmad Kh.
date: 2020-05-16
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title:
  Neurosurgery Residents Perspective on the COVID-19: Knowledge, Readiness, and Impact of this Pandemic.

summary:
  Objectives This is the first study regarding the readiness of neurosurgery residents towards the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact. The aim is to identify the level of knowledge, readiness, and the impact of this virus among neurosurgery residents in different programs.


id: cord-310144-s25do8cb
author: Lara-Reyna, Jacques
date: 2020-07-27
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flesch: 48
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title:
  “Staying Home” - Early Changes in Patterns of Neurotrauma in New York City during the COVID-19 Pandemic

summary:
  Healthcare institutions in NYC witnessed an exponential growth of COVID-19 cases since March 3, with the highest peak of 6,368 diagnoses on April 6th, and a peak of 590 deaths on April 7th. The weekly maximum peak of COVID-19 cases was observed between March 22th and March 31st, three weeks after the first case was reported in NYC, and one week after the Executive Order started.


id: cord-318897-7bq0nhwm
author: Borsa, Stefano
title: Impact of COVID-19 outbreak on acute low back pain
date: 2020-05-29
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summary:
  World Neurosurg DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.05.218 sha: doc_id: 318897 cord_uid: 7bq0nhwm nan We would like to bring our contribution from one of the most affected regions of the world by the SARS-CoV-2 on how pandemic has influenced the number of visits for low back pain and to provide food for thought for a reorganization of low back pain management in the post-COVID-19 era. We collected data from 4 hospitals in Milan on Emergency Ward (EW) and on Outpatient Department (OD) visits for acute low back pain (ALBP) for the period March 8 th , 2020 -April 8 th , 2020 and for the same period of the previous year.


id: cord-252661-wa0hdg1u
author: Pennington, Zach
title: Letter: Changes to neurosurgery resident education following onset of the COVID-19 pandemic
date: 2020-05-22
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  As residents must meet minimum case volumes to demonstrate proficiency 5 upon program completion, 3 there is concern among both residents and program directors 6 regarding the severity of the impact of COVID-19 on neurosurgical resident education. Ammar et al noted similar effects in their report 283 on efforts to maintain wellness amongst neurosurgical residents at a New York City program.


id: cord-313503-wvgwf9n3
author: D’Amico, Randy S.
date: 2020-07-23
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title:
  Neurosurgical/Head and Neck drape to Prevent Aerosolization of COVID-19 - The Lenox Hill Hospital/Northwell Health solution.

summary:
  The COVID-19 aerosolization prevention drape may limit intraoperative dispersal of COVID-19 particles and add an additional layer of protection against the spread of the virus. Guidelines from the Difficult Airway Society, the Association of Anaesthetists the Intensive Care Society, the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and the Royal College of Anaesthetists Clear plastic drapes may be effective at limiting aerosolization and droplet spray during extubation: implications for COVID-19 COVID-19 and the


id: cord-289111-6725jg29
author: Field, Nicholas C.
title: Decrease in Neurosurgical Program Volume During COVID-19: Residency Programs Must Adapt
date: 2020-06-25
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  Our resident service was split into an on-call and backup team due to the decrease in case volume, and also to limit exposure to COVID-19, and provide coverage in the Neuro ICU. The long-term implications of the outbreak are unclear, but neurosurgical residency programs must consider the long -term effects on resident education and develop an internal roadmap moving forward.


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author: Rahman, Md Moshiur
date: 2020-08-24
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title:
  Letter to the Editor: Pain Management Strategy in Neurosurgical Patients During the Coronavirus Pandemic

summary:
  10 Cancer pain syndromes Multisociety letter to the agency for healthcare research and quality: serious methodological flaws plague technology assessment on pain management injection therapies for low back pain Inhibition of IL-6 signaling: a novel therapeutic approach to treating spinal cord injury pain' by COVID 19 infection presenting as motor peripheral neuropathy COVID 19: neuromuscular manifestations Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak: single-center experience in neurosurgical and neuroradiologic emergency network tailoring Intravenous acetaminophen (paracetamol) for post-craniotomy pain; systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials Letter: a survey of chronic pain due to spinal dural arteriovenous fistulae Intravenous acetaminophen (paracetamol) for postcraniotomy pain: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials Non-drug non-invasive treatment in the management of low back pain Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare that the article content was composed in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. It plays a significant role in the patients who do not respond to conservative methods of pain management.


id: cord-271840-cw2xy1m6
author: Majmundar, Neil
date: 2020-09-23
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title:
  Incidence, Pathophysiology, and Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Acute Ischemic Stroke

summary:
  While younger patients may be presenting with LVOs, many stroke centers across the world have anecdotally reported a decline in the total number of patients presenting with an ischemic stroke during the height of the pandemic. Cardiovascular considerations for patients, health care workers, and health systems during the COVID-19 pandemic Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection and ischemic stroke Neurologic manifestations of hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019 in Wuhan, China Large-vessel stroke as a presenting feature of covid-19 in the young Incidence, characteristics and outcomes of large vessel stroke in COVID-19 cohort: a multicentric international study Hypercoagulation and antithrombotic treatment in coronavirus 2019: a new challenge Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery recommendations for the care of emergent neurointerventional patients in the setting of COVID-19 Falling stroke rates during COVID-19 pandemic at a Comprehensive Stroke Center: cover title: falling stroke rates during COVID-19 Collateral effect of covid-19 on stroke evaluation in the United States Delayed presentation of acute ischemic strokes during the COVID-19 crisis From the Departments of 1 Neurological Surgery and 2 1878-8750/$ -see front matter ª 2020 Published by


id: cord-276829-c1krlejx
author: José Antonio, Soriano Sánchez
date: 2020-05-07
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flesch: 42
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title:
  EARLY REPORT ON THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 OUTBREAK IN NEUROSURGICAL PRACTICE AMONG MEMBERS OF THE LATIN AMERICAN FEDERATION OF NEUROSURGICAL SOCIETIES

summary:
  Telemedicine represents an excellent solution, avoiding another pandemic of severe diseases across all-specialties as non-essential care can turn essential if left untreated. Suboptimal treatment can theoretically turn non-essential care pathologies into 231 essential care pathologies at an exponential growth rate, as massive or even more, than 232 COVID-19 Pandemic.


id: cord-355271-zynnr776
author: Agrawal, Amit
date: 2020-08-09
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title:
  Letter to the editor– “Staying Home - Early Changes in Patterns of Neurotrauma in New York City during the COVID-19 Pandemic

summary:
  References: Staying Home An epidemiological study of traumatic brain injury cases in a trauma centre of New Delhi (India) Estimating the global incidence of traumatic brain injury A systematic review of quantitative research on traumatic brain injury in India Variation in volumes and characteristics of trauma patients admitted to a level one trauma centre during national level 4 lockdown for COVID-19 in New Zealand Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on orthopedic trauma workload in a London level 1 trauma center: the golden month Lessons learnt from COVID 19: An Italian multicentric epidemiological study of orthopaedic and trauma services COVID-19-Impact on DNR Orders in the Largest Cancer Center in Jordan The Importance of Addressing Advance Care Planning and Decisions About Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders During Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) Staying Home -Early Changes in Patterns of Neurotrauma in New York City during the COVID-19 Pandemic 6, 7 Furthermore, comparative reduction in the number of surgeries may be due to overall decrease in neurotrauma cases and also due to DNR (do not resuscitate) strategies in terminally sick patients.


id: cord-287237-fobek8ak
author: Bond, Jacob D.
title: Clinical anatomy of the extradural neural axis compartment: a literature review
date: 2020-07-22
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flesch: 37
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summary:
  Methods A narrative review of EDNAC literature was conducted. While it is asserted that the EDNAC is recognised by skull base surgeons, there is a relative paucity of EDNAC literature, and only a small number of papers have investigated this compartment specifically or made reference to it.


id: cord-343322-vx3lub3s
author: LUBANSU, Alphonse
date: 2020-11-02
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title:
  Reply to the Letter to the Editor Regarding " COVID-19 impact on neurosurgical practice: lockdown attitude and experience of a European academic center ".

summary:
  They anticipate any potential health care congestion according to the national and institutional forecasts by suspending non-urgent elective surgeries and outpatient activities and re-deployed wards, resources, and teams. Regarding COVID-19 impact on neurosurgical practice: lockdown attitude and experience of a European academic center .


id: cord-277801-auq3msc6
author: Deora, Harsh
title: Adapting Neurosurgery Practice During The Covid-19 Pandemic In The Indian Subcontinent
date: 2020-07-15
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flesch: 47
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summary:
  While government institutions had an almost equitable distribution of the number of neurosurgeons between >10 and <10 groups (37 vs 44), private practice was dominated by teams comprising 2-5 neurosurgeons per team ( Figure 2D , Table 2 ). Hence, there was a need felt to understand the effect of the COVID epidemic on neurosurgical practice in the Indian subcontinent.


id: cord-320991-nkkmzymu
author: Cabrera, Juan P.
date: 2020-05-18
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title:
  Letter to the Editor: Is COVID-19 the Cause of Delayed Surgical Treatment of Spine Trauma in Latin America?

summary:
  5 With regard to spine surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic, there are some recommendations to perform emergency or confined surgery for patients with severe nerve root compression, spinal cord injury, progressive aggravation of nerve dysfunction, or spinal fracture with obvious displacement or compression. In addition, while working at any kind of hospital, spine surgery is not the biggest concern for administrators and is not a priority of the government during the time of a pandemic.


id: cord-275784-n6jv72l7
author: Spina, Alfio
title: The Management Of Neurosurgical Patients During The Covid-19 Pandemic
date: 2020-04-30
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flesch: 39
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summary:
  It is well known that COVID-19 patients harbor a higher risk of thrombosis and secondary pulmonary infections, hence adequate treatment has to be warranted. Case selection, operating room and postoperative management of neurosurgical patients were discussed.


id: cord-265172-rn9pkk52
author: Michiwaki, Yuhei
date: 2020-10-09
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flesch: 40
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title:
  Emergent carotid artery stenting following intravenous alteplase infusion after rapid negative diagnosis for COVID-19 by loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay: A case report

summary:
  During the COVID-19 pandemic, the LAMP assay for COVID-19 detection might be a suitable diagnostic strategy preceding stroke treatment because of the rapid turnaround time. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the LAMP assay for COVID-19 detection might be a suitable diagnostic strategy preceding stroke treatment because of the rapid turnaround time.


id: cord-295029-zki5ac2g
author: Pena, Robert C.F.
date: 2020-11-03
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flesch: 24
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title:
  In Reply to the Letter to the Editor Regarding “Coronavirus Neurosurgical/Head and Neck Drape to Prevent Aerosolization of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): The Lenox Hill Hospital/Northwell Health Solution”

summary:
  HIV-1 aerosolization, for example, has been shown to occur at slower drill speeds (30,000 rpm), meaning a precautionary reduction in rotational speed likely does not protect against viral aerosol transmission. Even more, the cancellation of elective surgical procedures may protect surgical staff to a point, but they still incur substantial risk in the performance of emergent, nondelayable care.


id: cord-270525-nmebqrb1
author: Núñez-Velasco, Santiago
title: Response to SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in a Non-COVID-19 Designated Latin-American Neurosurgery Department
date: 2020-05-11
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sentence: 111
flesch: 49
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summary:
  To correctly use this algorithm, we have defined a screening questionnaire ( Table 1 ) that includes the epidemiological, radiological, serum, and clinical criteria commonly described in COVID-19 patients and that are readily available in our hospital this questionnaire allows us to classify patients at high and low risk of developing COVID-19; this form must be completed by the team of on-call neurosurgery residents and reported to the attendings team on duty for verification. We classified neurosurgical patients into 4 groups depending on whether their condition demands care in 0-6 hours, 6-48 hours, 48 hours to 14 days, and >14 days.


id: cord-253318-nlk8pjv2
author: Roberti, Fabio
date: 2020-05-06
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title:
  Minimally invasive lumbar decompression and removal of symptomatic Heterotopic bone formation after spinal fusion with rhBMP-2

summary:
  key: cord-253318-nlk8pjv2 authors: Roberti, Fabio; Arsenault, Katie title: Minimally invasive lumbar decompression and removal of symptomatic Heterotopic bone formation after spinal fusion with rhBMP-2 date: 2020-05-06 journal: World Neurosurg DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.04.235 sha: doc_id: 253318 cord_uid: nlk8pjv2 Abstract We present a case of symptomatic heterotopic bone formation following revision of posterolateral lumbar fusion/instrumentation and “off-label” use of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2), treated successfully with the use of a minimally invasive tubular approach. Increased rates of infection, postoperative seromas and hematomas, delayed wound healing, dysphagia and neck swelling, retrograde ejaculation, symptomatic radiculitis, vertebral osteolysis, cage subsidence as well as heterotopic bone formation have all been reported following the use of rhBMP-2 in spine surgery (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18) .


id: cord-322497-hdy3va8e
author: LUBANSU, Alphonse
date: 2020-09-03
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sentence: 66
flesch: 38
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title:
  COVID-19 impact on neurosurgical practice: lockdown attitude and experience of a European academic center.

summary:
  limited clinical neurosurgical experience including COVID-19 patients have been reported. The mortality rate of COVID-19 patients was remarkably high (45%), and even higher in patients that underwent surgical intervention (77 %).


id: cord-322277-mbe9dt3v
author: Sharif, Salman
title: COVID 19-Depression and Neurosurgeons
date: 2020-06-06
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flesch: 49
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summary:
  This hypothesis is confirmed by another study conducted at Liaquat National Hospital on frontline physicians (unpublished data) which found that there was more depression in physicians who were working < 20 hours a week compared to those who are working > 20 hours during the pandemic. This may be one of the reasons that despite mental health problems and psychosocial issues among health-care workers, most of them do not often seek mental health care.


id: cord-293166-gkzebyda
author: Hoz, Samer S.
date: 2020-11-03
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flesch: 45
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title:
  Letter to the Editor: “Beyond Containment: Tracking the Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Neurosurgery Services in Iraq”

summary:
  In addition, national public education plans for the de-stigmatization of the disease are needed, since many reports of transmission to hospital personnel have been traced back to patients who have denied their symptoms or exposure status. However, these measures are far from adequate and the hospital remains a full-house at all times, with at least 4 patients per hospital room, challenging the proper implementation of social distancing guidelines.


id: cord-274408-3q6jibl8
author: Knopf, Joshua D.
title: Neurosurgical operative videos: an analysis of an increasingly popular educational resource
date: 2020-09-02
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sentence: 140
flesch: 40
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  key: cord-274408-3q6jibl8 authors: Knopf, Joshua D.; Kumar, Rahul; Barats, Michael; Klimo, Paul; Boop, Frederick A.; Michael, L. Madison; Martin, Jonathan E.; Bookland, Markus; Hersh, David S. title: Neurosurgical operative videos: an analysis of an increasingly popular educational resource date: 2020-09-02 journal: World Neurosurg DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.08.187 sha: doc_id: 274408 cord_uid: 3q6jibl8 Objective Surgical education has increasingly relied upon electronic learning, and in particular, online operative videos have become a core resource within the field of neurosurgery. Here, we analyze the current forums for neurosurgical operative videos.


id: cord-266764-q2vtrs95
author: Munusamy, Thangaraj
date: 2020-09-18
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sentence: 163
flesch: 42
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title:
  Telemedicine via Smart Glasses in Critical Care of the Neurosurgical Patient – A COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness and Response in Neurosurgery

summary:
  The goal of our study was to determine if telemedicine delivered through smart glasses was feasible and effective in an alternative method of conducting ward round on neurocritical care patients during the pandemic. We have shown that virtual neurocritical care ward round using telemedicine via smart glasses is feasible, effective and acceptable as an alternative to physical ward round to circumvent manpower shortage, physical distancing measures and key shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic.


id: cord-275926-rj23z7po
author: Fontanella, Marco M.
title: Neurosurgical practice during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: a worldwide survey
date: 2020-05-05
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sentence: 164
flesch: 44
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summary:
  COVID-19 positive Italian health professionals have reached more than 13,000, with more than 100 deaths of physicians (most of them are general practitioners) and almost 30 nurses. These data show how most countries acted according to international guidelines in the management of elective procedures.


id: cord-285226-4ydvjmr3
author: Sekhar, Laligam N.
title: The Future of Skull Base Surgery: A View Through Tinted Glasses
date: 2020-06-27
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flesch: 39
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summary:
  However, the essential requirements for skull base surgeons remain unchanged, namely: knowledge, attention to details, technical skill, innovation, judgement, and compassion. However, the essential 28 requirements for skull base surgeons remain unchanged, namely: knowledge, 29 attention to details, technical skill, innovation, judgement, and compassion.


id: cord-352388-t0tv0lxs
author: Pressman, Elliot
date: 2020-07-19
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flesch: 41
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title:
  The Return Back to Typical Practice from the ‘Battle Plan’ of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparative Study

summary:
  This can be accomplished by anticipating increases in neurosurgical volume, specifically in the functional/epilepsy and brain tumor subspecialties, as well as continued decreases in neurosurgical clinic volume, specifically in elective spine. To accomplish this, departments can anticipate increases in neurosurgical volume, specifically in the functional/epilepsy and brain tumor subspecialties, as well as continued decreases in neurosurgical clinic volume, specifically in elective spine.


id: cord-268939-ws74xprt
author: Ozoner, Baris
title: Neurosurgery Practice During Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic
date: 2020-05-28
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sentence: 273
flesch: 41
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summary:
  Screening is crucial in all patients since the surgical outcome is highly mortal in COVID-19 patients. In this way, hub hospitals are available to manage neurosurgical emergencies, whereas spoke hospitals concentrate on COVID-19 patients.


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  sa constitution et les rapports des éléments vasculaires et nerveux qui la traversent comparative microanatomy


