New York City Vascular Surgeons during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has forever changed the lives of many across the world. Like many others, New Yorkers witnessed their hospital systems become overwhelmed with a massive influx of critically ill patients. Protocols, workflow, staffing, and individual responsibilities...

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Main Author: Daniel K. Han
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Medrang 2020-12-01
Series:Vascular Specialist International
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Online Access:http://www.vsijournal.org/journal/view.html?doi=10.5758/vsi.200081
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spelling doaj-833fb0fc42aa4ad89e04fbfef842a2ee2021-01-08T00:35:18ZengMedrang Vascular Specialist International2288-79702020-12-0136420721110.5758/vsi.200081vsi.200081New York City Vascular Surgeons during the COVID-19 PandemicDaniel K. Han0Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USAThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has forever changed the lives of many across the world. Like many others, New Yorkers witnessed their hospital systems become overwhelmed with a massive influx of critically ill patients. Protocols, workflow, staffing, and individual responsibilities all changed as health care providers scrambled to help where they could. As we see, for the second time this year, a rapid rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in the United States, I wanted to share our experience as vascular surgeons during the first surge from a health care system located in New York City, one of the largest epicenters of the pandemic.http://www.vsijournal.org/journal/view.html?doi=10.5758/vsi.200081vascular surgerycovid-19pandemicnew york city
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vascular surgery
covid-19
pandemic
new york city
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title New York City Vascular Surgeons during the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_short New York City Vascular Surgeons during the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_full New York City Vascular Surgeons during the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_fullStr New York City Vascular Surgeons during the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_full_unstemmed New York City Vascular Surgeons during the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_sort new york city vascular surgeons during the covid-19 pandemic
publisher Medrang
series Vascular Specialist International
issn 2288-7970
publishDate 2020-12-01
description The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has forever changed the lives of many across the world. Like many others, New Yorkers witnessed their hospital systems become overwhelmed with a massive influx of critically ill patients. Protocols, workflow, staffing, and individual responsibilities all changed as health care providers scrambled to help where they could. As we see, for the second time this year, a rapid rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in the United States, I wanted to share our experience as vascular surgeons during the first surge from a health care system located in New York City, one of the largest epicenters of the pandemic.
topic vascular surgery
covid-19
pandemic
new york city
url http://www.vsijournal.org/journal/view.html?doi=10.5758/vsi.200081
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