Publications by authors named "Prizzi Zarsadias"
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to drastic measures being implemented for the management of surgical patients across all health services worldwide, including the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. It is suspected that the virus has had a detrimental effect on perioperative morbidity and mortality. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on these outcomes in emergency general surgical patients.
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- Effective training is important for medical teams to deal with viral outbreaks like COVID-19.
- The study measured how confident surgical teams felt before and after practicing emergency procedures in simulations.
- Results showed that after the training, the teams felt much more confident in handling patients who might have COVID-19.