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30.01.2021 | COVID-19 | Letter to the Editor
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Metabolic/Bariatric Surgery during COVID-19
verfasst von:
Henry Buchwald
Erschienen in:
Obesity Surgery
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Ausgabe 6/2021
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Excerpt
Most, if not all, metabolic/bariatric surgery has been cancelled or delayed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Certainly, the number of metabolic/bariatric procedures for 2020 will fall well below the 250,000 performed in 2019, which were only 1–2% of criteria-eligible patients. Hospital decision makers have uniformly designated metabolic/bariatric surgery as elective, an optional treatment to choose at any time rather than one needed urgently. Is this really true? …