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01-11-2020 | COVID-19 | Editorial
Maintaining education, research and innovation in orthopaedic surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic. The role of virtual platforms. From presential to virtual, front and side effects of the pandemic
Authors:
Marius M. Scarlat, Jing Sun, Patricia M. B. Fucs, Peter Giannoudis, Andreas F. Mavrogenis, Thami Benzakour, Andrew Quaile, James P. Waddell
Published in:
International Orthopaedics
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Issue 11/2020
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Excerpt
Being physician or medical student is a complex task that became currently more subtle and difficult. On March 11, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the global pandemic with the occurrence and spread of a potentially life-threatening virus named COVID-19 with over 100.000 cases in 100 different countries affected by that time [
1]. The pandemic spread fast and at the time when this paper goes in print over one million humans died as a result of viral action or related complications and over 36 million were infected [
2]. The need to control the spread of the virus imposed in many countries measures of confinement, lockdown and social distancing. The orthopaedic practice was deeply affected by the pandemic and all the work schedules were altered. Guidelines from professional associations [
3,
4,
5] proposed to postpone elective surgeries depending on the local situations and resources. The pandemic demonstrated the health system inequalities throughout the world, red lights turned on in many countries making visible how hard is to address such a global threat even in the twenty-first century. …
