Does COVID-19 infection increase surgical mortality and complications in patients undergoing surgery?
Patients with COVID-19 have higher surgical mortality and complications, suggesting surgery should be postponed whenever possible.
In this matched cohort study, surgical mortality and complications were higher in patients with COVID-19 compared with patients without COVID-19. These data suggest that, whenever possible, surgery should be postponed in patients with COVID-19.
Doglietto et al. (Fri,) studied this question.