The COVID-19 pandemic has required us to consider our roles as surgical oncologists within the scope of a new threat: to our system, to our patients, and to ourselves as health care workers. The pandemic has limited any chance of considering things as business as usual. The elective surgery schedule has been eliminated. Urgent surgery at my institution now means admitting a patient the night prior for placement on an urgent surgery queue. Surgery times have ballooned with the need for our anesthesia colleagues to take severe precaution during the process of intubation. Any consideration of surgery has required balancing the risks of waiting with the risks of going forward.

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COVID-19时代的神经肿瘤学伦理学：要汲取的教训。

COVID-19大流行要求我们在新的威胁范围内考虑我们作为外科肿瘤学家的角色：对我们的系统，对我们的患者以及对自己作为卫生保健工作者的威胁。大流行限制了一切照常进行的机会。择期手术时间表已被淘汰。现在，我所在机构的紧急手术意味着要在前一天晚上收治患者，以便安排其进入紧急手术队列。由于插管过程中麻醉医生需要采取严格的预防措施，因此外科手术时间迅速膨胀。任何考虑手术的因素都需要在等待的风险和前进的风险之间取得平衡。