Delaying Surgery News Today

Further data from the pivotal Checkmate 816 trial continue to support the combination of nivolumab with chemotherapy in the neoadjuvant setting for patients with resectable non–small cell lung cancer.

Ambulances can actually take patients. >> reporter: if its red, that means theyre full basically, so there are occasions when theyre made to wait without taking the patient inside. its called on the wall, where theyre actually kept outside of the emergency room with the patient in the back of the ambulance waiting to be able to go inside. we dont allow that here. >> even if youre vaccinated and done all the right things, because of this pandemic and the unvaccinated, it affects you? >> it is. we...

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) has produced various guidelines on COVID-19 safe practice. Our most recent report – Delaying Surgery for Patients Recovering from COVID-19 is available for download. Access a copy (PDF 480.77KB) of the report. RACS developed these evidence-based reports to ensure surgeons and other health practitioners have the most up to date information to inform best practice safe surgery during the pandemic. The guidelines have been produced to aid surgeon...