TY - JOUR
T1 - The American College of Surgeons Responds to COVID-19
AU - in collaboration with the American College of Surgeons COVID-19 Communications Committee, Board of Regents, and Officers
AU - Rusch, Valerie W.
AU - Wexner, Steven D.
AU - Atala, Anthony
AU - Atkinson, John L.D.
AU - Denneny, James C.
AU - Eberlein, Timothy J.
AU - Elsey, James K.
AU - Farmer, Diana L.
AU - Ford, Henri R.
AU - Fried, Gerald M.
AU - Gigantelli, James W.
AU - Hancock, B. J.
AU - Hernandez, Enrique
AU - Jacobs, Lenworth M.
AU - Levin, L. Scott
AU - Meredith, J. Wayne
AU - Michelassi, Fabrizio
AU - Napolitano, Lena M.
AU - Phillips, Linda G.
AU - Sharp, Kenneth W.
AU - Sidawy, Anton N.
AU - Stain, Steven C.
AU - Sutton, Beth H.
AU - Timmerman, Gary L.
AU - Wood, Douglas E.
AU - Anthony Atala, Atala
N1 - Funding Information:
Disclosures outside the scope of this work: Dr Rusch receives grant money for institutional clinical trials from Genelux, Inc and Genentech, and receives travel reimbursement for robotic mentoring from Intuitive Surgical. Dr Rusch is Co-Chair for the Thoracic Malignancy Steering Committee, National Cancer Institute and Member, Data Safety Monitoring Committee, MARS2 Trial (UK). Dr Wexner is a paid consultant for Intuitive, Karl Storz, Stryker, Medtronic, Takeda, and Regentys, receives royalties for intellectual property licenses from Intuitive, Medtronic, Karl Storz Endoscopy, and Unique Surgical Innovation, and holds stock options for consultancy with Regentys, LifeBond, Pragma, and Renew Med.Support: Dr Rusch's work is supported in part by National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute Cancer Center Support Grant P30 CA008748.
Funding Information:
Support: Dr Rusch's work is supported in part by National Institutes of Health / National Cancer Institute Cancer Center Support Grant P30 CA008748 .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020
PY - 2020/10
Y1 - 2020/10
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly, and perhaps irrevocably, changed the way we live, conduct our business affairs, and practice medicine and surgery. In mid-March 2020, as COVID-19 infections escalated exponentially across many areas of the US, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Surgeon General, and the American College of Surgeons (ACS) recommended that hospitals and surgeons postpone non-urgent operations in order to provide care to COVID-19 patients.1-3 It quickly became obvious that the COVID-19 pandemic presented unprecedented medical challenges. ACS leadership, including the Board of Regents and Officers (Appendix), worked with the ACS Executive Director (Dr David Hoyt) and staff to rapidly organize a response to the COVID-19 crisis. The aim of this effort was to support ACS members and Fellows, as well as the broader medical community, in continuing to provide optimal patient care. Because other similar public health crises could arise in the future, we report the measures taken by the ACS to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly, and perhaps irrevocably, changed the way we live, conduct our business affairs, and practice medicine and surgery. In mid-March 2020, as COVID-19 infections escalated exponentially across many areas of the US, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Surgeon General, and the American College of Surgeons (ACS) recommended that hospitals and surgeons postpone non-urgent operations in order to provide care to COVID-19 patients.1-3 It quickly became obvious that the COVID-19 pandemic presented unprecedented medical challenges. ACS leadership, including the Board of Regents and Officers (Appendix), worked with the ACS Executive Director (Dr David Hoyt) and staff to rapidly organize a response to the COVID-19 crisis. The aim of this effort was to support ACS members and Fellows, as well as the broader medical community, in continuing to provide optimal patient care. Because other similar public health crises could arise in the future, we report the measures taken by the ACS to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2020.06.020
DO - 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2020.06.020
M3 - Article
C2 - 32673759
AN - SCOPUS:85089752696
SN - 1072-7515
VL - 231
SP - 490
EP - 496
JO - Journal of the American College of Surgeons
JF - Journal of the American College of Surgeons
IS - 4
ER -