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Surgery Considerations: Risks and Resource Utilization

Consider surgery-related risks Assess hospital resource utilization

• Serious complications • Access to operating theatre

• Increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 • Anaesthesiology services
exposure to patients and healthcare
professionals • Hospital equipment

• Robotic-assisted laparoscopic • Hospital/intensive care beds

prostatectomy or laparoscopic RP
may increase exposure to
aerosolized virus

• Precautions necessary with
minimally invasive surgery,

eg, use of filter devices

RP = radical prostatectomy
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2. Sante et Services sociaux Quebec. Recommandations pour la priorisation des patients en contexte de pandémie de COVID-19 – Volet Cancers urologiques. 2020 Apr.15.
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