Head and Neck Surgery During COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience from a Tertiary Care in India

Abstract

/=3a) was found to be lower in those patients operated during the pandemic (p=0.007). By meticulous preoperative COVID-19 screening and isolation, head and neck surgical procedures can be continued to avoid delay in diagnosis and treatment without jeopardising the risk of transmission of COVID-19 to the patients or health-care workers.