Hi Susie,
At first I was thinking this is ridiculous and I'd be so annoyed. Although a quick search found the below and there are quite a few other links to it. I assume it's good information but know nothing about it. I still think I'd be torn depending on my diagnosis.
The article was published in 'Anaesthesia' so presumably the Anaesthetist knows more about it. Although 2 and a half times next to nothing is still very small.
'Researchers discovered that patients are more than two-and-a-half times more likely to die after their operations, if the procedure takes places in the six weeks following a positive diagnosis for SARS-CoV-2.
Led by experts at the University of Birmingham, more than 25,000 surgeons worked together as part of the COVIDSurg Collaborative to collect data from 140,727 patients in 1,674 hospitals across 116 countries including Australia, Brazil, China, India, the UAE, UK and USA - creating one of the world’s largest and broadest studies on surgery.
Publishing their findings in Anaesthesia, the researchers discovered that patients operated 0-6 weeks after SARS-CoV-2 infection diagnosis were at increased risk of postoperative death, as were patients with ongoing symptoms at the time of surgery.
We recommend that whenever possible surgery should be delayed for at least seven weeks after a positive SARS-CoV-2 test result, or until symptoms resolve if patients have ongoing symptoms for seven weeks or more after diagnosis.
Co-lead author Dr Dmitri Nepogodiev, from the University of Birmingham'
Edited by member 07 Apr 2022 at 17:31
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