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Limiting spread of COVID-19 in an orthopaedic department-a perspective from Spain
Besides national and international recommendations, orthopaedic departments face significant changes in daily activity and
serious issues to maintain their standards in musculoskeletal care during the pandemic Covid-19 crisis that we are facing.
This report retrospectively addresses measures that were progressively put in place to modify in a week time the activity of
a busy orthopaedic department in a large tertiary university hospital in face of the pandemic. Surgical priorities and surgical
outcomes are key aspects to consider. The experience may offer some insight to areas where the spread of the disease may
be slower or delayed. Abrupt stop of scheduled surgery and clinics is useful to adapt an orthopaedic department to the overall
hospital resource reorganization. Orthopaedic surgeons need to be aware of the risks to patients and personnel in view of
underdiagnosed cases, which make pre-operative Covid-19 evaluation mandatory for all surgical case
Agreement in the assessment of metastatic spine disease using scoring systems
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