Soham Bandyopadhyay, Danyal Z Khan, Hani J Marcus, Benjamin E Schroeder, Vikesh Patel, Alice O'Donnell, Shahzada Ahmed, Andrew F Alalade, Ahmad Ms Ali, Callum Allison, Sinan Al-Barazi, Rafid Al-Mahfoudh, Meriem Amarouche, Anuj Bahl, David Bennett, Raj Bhalla, Pragnesh Bhatt, Alexandros Boukas, Ivan Cabrilo, Annabel Chadwick, Yasir A Chowdhury, David Choi, Simon A Cudlip, Neil Donnelly, Neil L Dorward, Graham Dow, Daniel M Fountain, Joan Grieve, Anastasios Giamouriadis, Catherine Gilkes, Kanna Gnanalingham, Jane Halliday, Brendan Hanna, Caroline Hayhurst, Jonathan Hempenstall, Duncan Henderson, Kismet Hossain-Ibrahim, Theodore Hirst, Mark Hughes, Mohsen Javadpour, Alistair Jenkins, Mahmoud Kamel, Richard J Mannion, Angelos G Kolias, Habibullah Khan, Mohammad Saud Khan, Peter Lacy, Shumail Mahmood, Eleni Maratos, Andrew Martin, Nijaguna Mathad, Patrick McAleavey, Nigel Mendoza, Christopher P Millward, Showkat Mirza, Sam Muquit, Daniel Murray, Paresh P Naik, Ramesh Nair, Claire Nicholson, Alex Paluzzi, Omar Pathmanaban, Dimitris Paraskevopoulos, Jonathan Pollock, Nick Phillips, Rory J Piper, Bhaskar Ram, Iain Robertson, Elena Roman, Peter Ross, Thomas Santarius, Parag Sayal, Jonathan Shapey, Rishi Sharma, Simon Shaw, Alireza Shoakazemi, Saurabh Sinha, Georgios Solomou, Simon Stapleton, Patrick Statham, Benjamin Stew, Syed Shumon, Wai Cheong Soon, Nick Thomas, Georgios Tsermoulas, James R Tysome, Adithya Varma, Philip Weir, Adam Williams, Mohamed Youssef
BACKGROUND: During the pandemic, there has been a concern about the increased risk of perioperative mortality for patients with COVID-19, and the transmission risk to healthcare workers, particularly during endonasal neurosurgical operations. The Pituitary Society produced recommendations to guide management during this era. We sought to assess contemporary neurosurgical practice and the impact of COVID-19. METHODS: A multicentre, prospective, observational cohort study was conducted at twelve tertiary neurosurgical units (UK and Ireland)...
January 11, 2021: World Neurosurgery