Abstract:

The situation of corona virus disease 2019(COVID-19) prevention and control remains severe worldwide. By February 29, 2020, about 42 000 medical care workers (MCWs) had been dispatched to Wuhan in Hubei province front lines against the epidemic outbreak. They mainly include doctors, nurses and paramedical workers in the respiratory, infection, critical care and nursing fields. As another important medical force, surgeons are also actively participating in the fight against COVID-19 in the front lines. The dispatched surgeons are required to have a solid foundation in medical treatment, rich experience in intensive and critical care, and a good understanding and practice in supportive and symptomatic treatment of respiratory, circulatory, digestive and other systemic diseases. In addition, they should have rich multidisciplinary team experience and cooperation with other specialties in discussion and analysis of patients with complex COVID-19 and formulation of precise and personalized therapeutic plans. They also need to be equipped with versatile professional knowledge and skills and able to deal with surgery-related complications of the COVID-19 patients, or provide related consultation opinions to the attending MCWs. More importantly, the aseptic knowledge and standardized practice formed in their daily work help surgeons better adapt to the working environment of the infected areas. This article is a summary of the experience and practice of surgeons working in the rescue teams in Wuhan and Hubei front lines against COVID-19 in the context of a literature review, hoping that our experience could provide some new inspirations to MCWs during the prevention and control of COVID-19.

Key words: Surgeon, COVID-19, Medical treatment, Multidisciplinary team