iStock [For illustration] Surgery should be delayed for seven weeks after a patient tests positive for COVID-19 in order to reduce the risk of death.
That s according to a new global study, which found that patients are more than two-and-a-half times more likely to die, if the procedure takes places in the six weeks following a positive COVID-19 diagnosis.
Led by experts at the University of Birmingham, more than 25,000 surgeons worked together on the study as part of the COVIDSurg Collaborative.
They collected data from 140,727 patients in 1,674 hospitals across 116 countries including the UAE, Australia, the UK, the US, Brazil, China and India.
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