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SUBMITTER: Ali Hassan SM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7267800 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Annals of thoracic surgery 20200603 5
The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated that operating room procedures be modified to ensure the safety of staff and patients. Specifically, procedures that have the potential to create aerosolization must be reassessed, given the risk of viral transmission via aerosolization. We present the use of a nonsealed endoscopic vessel harvesting approach during coronary surgery that does not necessitate the use of CO2 insufflation and utilizes suction through an ultra low particulate filter, thus mitiga ...[more]