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In Reply: Rongeurs, Neurosurgeons, and COVID-19: How Do We Protect Health Care Personnel During Neurosurgical Operations in the Midst of Aerosol-Generation From High-Speed Drills?
Neurosurgery ( IF 3.9 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-09 , DOI: 10.1093/neuros/nyaa213
S Ottavio Tomasi 1, 2 , Giuseppe Emmanuele Umana 3 , Gianluca Scalia 4, 5 , Peter A Winkler 1, 2
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To the Editor: We appreciated the manuscript by Chan et al,1 “Rongeurs, Neurosurgeons, and COVID-19: How Do We Protect Health Care Personnel During Neurosurgical Operations in the Midst of Aerosol-Generation FromHigh-Speed Drills?” published April 2020 in Neurosurgery. We are grateful to the authors of the letter1 for their precise analysis and useful recommendations to fellow neurosurgeons and trainees to uphold the traditional craft of using hand drills and rongeurs in order to minimize aerosol generation from the neurosurgical-powered instruments during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, we write in reply to present our surgical experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. We test all emergency patients coming to the hospital with the nasopharyngeal tampon for COVID-19 directly at the Emergencies, where we have special isolated rooms for suspected COVID-19 patients, or we ask to make the test in the peripheral hospitals. If we can, we wait the results, which usually arrive in around 4 to 6 h. In the meantime, the patient is hospitalized in an isolated room. If the patient needs an emergency operation, we perform the operation without waiting for the test results, but treating the patient as COVID-19 positive, with full protection measures and equipment for surgeons, nurses, and anesthesiologists. In the operating room, we try to use hand-drill and rongeurs when it is feasible, for example, for burr-hole or external ventricular drain (EVD); if we need the high-speed drill, for example, in the case of an anterior clinoidectomy, we will use it. After the operation, the patient will not be extubated and will transfer to the neurosurgical intensive care unit (ICU), in an isolated room for suspected COVID-19 patients. In this room, a trained nurse stays, waiting for the test results. If the results are positive, the patient will be transferred to the “Covid-House,” an isolated department only for COVID-19positive patients. In this case, all the medical and paramedical staff, who were in contact with the patient, should go to quarantine for 14 d. In the case of negative results, the patient will transfer to the normal ICU or normal ward. Using this scheme, so far, our neurosurgical department has been COVID-19 free. We are glad to share our experience with the other colleagues and we hope that it could be useful to increase daily practice’s safety.

中文翻译:

回复:咬骨师、神经外科医生和 COVID-19:我们如何在高速钻孔产生气溶胶的神经外科手术中保护医护人员?

致编辑:我们感谢 Chan 等人的手稿,1“Rongeurs、Neurosurgeons 和 COVID-19:在高速钻头产生气溶胶的过程中,我们如何在神经外科手术中保护医护人员?” 2020 年 4 月发表在《神经外科》上。我们感谢这封信的作者 1 的精确分析和有用的建议,他们对神经外科医生和受训人员坚持使用手钻和咬骨钳的传统工艺,以尽量减少 COVID-19 大流行期间神经外科动力器械产生的气溶胶. 尽管如此,我们写回信来介绍我们在 COVID-19 大流行期间的手术经验。我们直接在急诊室对所有带着鼻咽棉塞入院的急诊患者进行 COVID-19 检测,我们为疑似 COVID-19 患者提供特殊隔离室,或者我们要求在周边医院进行检测。如果可以,我们会等待结果,通常会在 4 到 6 小时左右到达。与此同时,患者在隔离病房住院。如果患者需要紧急手术,我们会在不等待检测结果的情况下进行手术,而是将患者视为 COVID-19 阳性,并为外科医生、护士和麻醉师提供全面的保护措施和设备。在手术室,我们在可行的情况下尝试使用手钻和咬骨钳,例如钻孔或外心室引流(EVD);如果我们需要高速钻头,例如在前床突切除术的情况下,我们会使用它。手术后,患者不会被拔管,并将转移到神经外科重症监护病房 (ICU),在一个隔离的房间里,为疑似 COVID-19 患者。在这个房间里,一名训练有素的护士待在那里,等待测试结果。如果结果为阳性,患者将被转移到“Covid-House”,这是一个仅针对 COVID-19 阳性患者的隔离部门。在这种情况下,所有与患者接触过的医务人员和辅助医务人员都应该去隔离14天。在阴性结果的情况下,患者将转入普通ICU或普通病房。到目前为止,使用此方案,我们的神经外科部门已无 COVID-19。我们很高兴与其他同事分享我们的经验,我们希望它有助于提高日常实践的安全性。在隔离的房间里,为疑似 COVID-19 患者。在这个房间里,一名训练有素的护士待在那里,等待测试结果。如果结果为阳性,患者将被转移到“Covid-House”,这是一个仅针对 COVID-19 阳性患者的隔离部门。在这种情况下,所有与患者接触过的医务人员和辅助医务人员都应该去隔离14天。在阴性结果的情况下,患者将转入普通ICU或普通病房。到目前为止,使用此方案,我们的神经外科部门已无 COVID-19。我们很高兴与其他同事分享我们的经验,我们希望它有助于提高日常实践的安全性。在隔离的房间里,为疑似 COVID-19 患者。在这个房间里,一名训练有素的护士待在那里,等待测试结果。如果结果为阳性,患者将被转移到“Covid-House”,这是一个仅针对 COVID-19 阳性患者的隔离部门。在这种情况下,所有与患者接触过的医务人员和辅助医务人员都应该去隔离14天。在阴性结果的情况下,患者将转入普通ICU或普通病房。到目前为止,使用此方案,我们的神经外科部门已无 COVID-19。我们很高兴与其他同事分享我们的经验,我们希望它有助于提高日常实践的安全性。” 仅针对 COVID-19 阳性患者的隔离部门。在这种情况下,所有与患者接触过的医务人员和辅助医务人员都应该去隔离14天。在阴性结果的情况下,患者将转入普通ICU或普通病房。到目前为止,使用此方案,我们的神经外科部门已无 COVID-19。我们很高兴与其他同事分享我们的经验,我们希望它有助于提高日常实践的安全性。” 仅针对 COVID-19 阳性患者的隔离部门。在这种情况下,所有与患者接触过的医务人员和辅助医务人员都应该去隔离14天。在阴性结果的情况下,患者将转入普通ICU或普通病房。到目前为止,使用此方案,我们的神经外科部门已无 COVID-19。我们很高兴与其他同事分享我们的经验,我们希望它有助于提高日常实践的安全性。
更新日期:2020-05-09
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