COVID-19 Moving Forward
Annals of Surgery remains proud of our contributions to the dissemination of new data, guidelines, and opinions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently as we have changed the focus of our efforts on how we adapt to life with COVID in the "new normal" of surgical practice, education, and research. After having provided an expedited review for over 400 manuscript submissions and fast-tracked into on-line publication over 60 papers, we are going to continue to evolve the review process with a change in the focus to the future. We will continue to provide an expedited review for Brief Clinical Reports and Surgical Perspective articles that we feel would provide immediate impact. However, large clinical reports, systematic reviews, or even review articles on the COVID experience and other related original manuscripts may undergo our full peer-review. We will selectively expedite the publication of such papers in the print journal. We anticipate the usual stringent Annals peer-review process with our usual acceptance rate of approximately 12% in the selection of manuscripts as we go forward.
As I have said in the past, that we all still have a lot to learn about this disease and look forward to receiving new and innovative findings from our authors and sharing them with our readership.
Keith D. Lillemoe, MD
Editor-in-Chief
Annals of Surgery
- Latest versions here:
- The Cost of Quarantine: Projecting the Financial Impact of Canceled Elective Surgery on the Nation's Hospitals
- The Relationship Between Surgeon Gender and Stress During the Covid-19 Pandemic
- Changes in Surgeries and Therapeutic Procedures During the COVID-19 Outbreak
- Critical Considerations for Reopening ScheduledSurgical Care in the Setting of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Yield of Screening for COVID-19 in Asymptomatic Patients Prior to Elective or Emergency Surgery Using Chest CT and RT-PCR (SCOUT)
- I Can't Breathe – Race, Violence and COVID-19
- Comment on "I Can't Breathe – Race, Violence and COVID-19"
- Surgeons, Surgical Research, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Surprise Billing in Surgical Care Episodes – Overview, Ethical Concerns, and Policy Solutions in Light of COVID-19
- The Crucible of War: Innovation in a Pandemic
- The Perioperative Services Response at a Major Children's Hospital During the Peak of the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City
- Social Media Responses to Elective Surgery Cancellations in the Wake of COVID-19
- Electrocautery, Diathermy and Surgical Energy Devices: Are Surgical Teams at Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Clinical Trials
- Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from Global Surgery
- Outcomes of Elective Major Cancer Surgery during COVID 19 at Tata Memorial Centre: Implications for Cancer Care Policy
- Outcomes after tracheostomy in COVID-19 patients
- Covid-19 and Racial Disparities: Moving Towards Surgical Equity
- Conducting Clinical Trials in the time of a Pandemic
- Developing an Algorithm to Guide Resumption of Operative Activity in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
- COVID-19 Preoperative Assessment and Testing: From Surge to Recovery
- Telemedicine for Surgical Consultations-- Pandemic Response or Here to Stay? A Report of Public Perceptions
- Comment on "Telemedicine for Surgical Consultations-- Pandemic Response or Here to Stay? A Report of Public Perceptions": Strategies for Telemedicine Services of General Surgery in the Post-COVID-19 Era - Experiences from Frontline Surgeons in Wuhan
- The Surgical Health Services Research Agenda for the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Abdominal Surgery in Patients with COVID-19: Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Abdominal and Adipose Tissues
- Successful Virtual Interviews: Perspectives from Recent Surgical Fellowship Applicants and Advice for Both Applicants and Programs
- The Perioperative Services Response at a Major Children's Hospital During the Peak of the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City
- The Effect on Trauma Care Secondary to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Collateral Damage from Diversion of Resources
- Social Media Responses to Elective Surgery Cancellations in the Wake of COVID-19
- Non-Technical Skill Countermeasures for Pandemic Response
- Out Of Darkness
- Restarting essential surgery in the era of COVID-19: A cautious data driven approach based on the literature and local data
- Should this Operation Proceed? When Residents and Faculty Disagree During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Recovery
- A snapshot of Elective Oncological Surgery in Italy during COVID-19 Emergency: pearls, pitfalls and perspectives
- Apples to Oranges: Ethical Considerations in COVID-19 Surgical Recovery
- COVID-19 Moves Medicine into a Virtual Space: A Paradigm Shift from Touch to Talk to Establish Trust
- Cancer Surgery Scheduling During and After the COVID-19 First Wave: The MD Anderson Cancer Center Experience
- Minimizing the risk of aerosol contamination during elective lung resection surgery.
- To a New Normal: Surgery and COVID-19 during the Transition Phase
- Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Respiratory Failure in Covid-19 Patients: Early Experience From a Major Academic Medical Center in North America
- The Compounding Access Problem for Surgical Care: Innovations in the Post-COVID Era
- Comment on "The Compounding Access Problem for Surgical Care: Innovations in the Post-COVID Era"
- Coronavirus threatens blood supply: Patient Blood Management now!
- Domestic Violence and Safe Storage of Firearms in the COVID-19 Era
- Design and Impact of a COVID-19 Multidisciplinary Bundled Procedure Team
- COVID-19 and Elective Surgery: 7 Practical Tips for a Safe, Successful and Sustainable Reboot
- Transitioning a Surgery Practice to Telehealth During COVID-19
- COVID-19 Implications on and of Surgical Practices - Where do we draw the line
- Virtual Interviews for Surgical Training Program Applicants during COVID-19
- Current Evidence for Minimally Invasive Surgery during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Risk Mitigation Strategies: A narrative review
- Cancer Surgery During COVID-19: How We Move Forward
- Comment on "Cancer Surgery During COVID-19: How We Move Forward"
- Response to: comment on "Cancer Surgery During COVID-19: How We Move Forward"
- Taking a Second Look at Neoadjuvant Endocrine Therapy for the Treatment of Early Stage Estrogen Receptor Positive Breast Cancer During the COVID-19 Outbreak
- Implications of COVID-19 on the General Surgery Match
- COVID-19 & The Residency Match: The Added Importance of Mentoring
- Tracheobronchial Slough, a Potential Pathology in Endotracheal Tube Obstruction in Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the Intensive Care Setting
- Management Considerations for the Surgical Treatment of Colorectal Cancer During the Global Covid-19 Pandemic
- Acute Care Surgeons' Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Observations and Strategies from the Epicenter of the American Crisis
- SARS-CoV-2 is present in peritoneal fluid in COVID-19 patients
- Comment on "SARS-CoV-2 is Present in Peritoneal Fluid in COVID-19"
- Comment on "SARS-CoV-2 is Present in Peritoneal Fluid in COVID-19"
- Charting a Roadmap for Value-Based Surgery in the Post-Pandemic Era*
- What Should I Do?
- Global Survey on Pancreatic Surgery during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- A combined approach to priorities of Surgical Oncology during the COVID-19 epidemic
- Gastrointestinal Complications in Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19
- Comment on 'Gastrointestinal Complications in Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19'
- Comment on 'Gastrointestinal Complications in Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19': an Update
- Operationalizing the Operating Room: Ensuring Appropriate Surgical Care in the Era of COVID-19
- Prehabilitation Telemedicine in Neoadjuvant Surgical Oncology Patients During the Novel COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic
- Maintaining Trauma Care Access During the COVID-19 Pandemic: an urban, Level-1 trauma center's experience
- In Situ Simulation Enables Operating Room Agility in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Changing the Paradigm of Surgical Research during a Pandemic
- Virtual Surgical Training During COVID-19
- The Consequences of Delaying Elective Surgery: Surgical Perspective
- Trailblazers without blades: Surgeons as Palliative Care Physicians in response to COVID-19
- A Practical Decontamination Framework for COVID-19 Front-Line Workers Returning Home
- Personal Protective Equipment and COVID-19 – A Review for Surgeons
- Comment on Personal Protective Equipment and COVID-19 – A Review for Surgeons
- Reply to comment on Personal Protective Equipment and COVID-19 – A Review for Surgeons
- Practical Techniques to Adapt Surgical Resident Education to the COVID-19 Era
- Nimble, Together: A Training Program's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Unknown unknowns: Surgical consent during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Trauma Does Not Quarantine: Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Approaching surgical triage during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Comment on "Approaching surgical triage during the COVID-19 Pandemic" triage outpatients of surgical departments for hospitalization during post-COVID-19 era - experience and recommendations from frontline surgeons in Wuhan
- Are we harming cancer patients by delaying their cancer surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic?
- Comment on "Are we harming cancer patients by delaying their cancer surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic?"
- Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Transmission from Community Contacts in Healthcare Workers
- COVID-19, Ethics & Equity – What is our Role as Surgeons?
- Managing COVID-19 in Surgical Systems
- Minimally Invasive Surgery and the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak: Lessons Learned in China and Italy
- Comment on "Minimally invasive surgery and the novel coronavirus outbreak: lessons learned in China and Italy."
- COVID-19 Outbreak and Surgical Practice: Unexpected Fatality in Perioperative Period
- Comment on "COVID-19 Outbreak and Surgical Practice: Unexpected Fatality in Perioperative Period
- Protecting Surgical Teams During the COVID-19 Outbreak
- COVID-19 – Considerations and Implications for Surgical Learners
- A Multidisciplinary Team Approach for Triage of Elective Cancer Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital During the Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 Outbreak
- COVID-19 preparedness within the surgical, obstetric and anesthetic ecosystem in Sub Saharan Africa
- Comment on "COVID-19 preparedness within the surgical, obstetric and anesthetic ecosystem in Sub Saharan Africa"
- Comment on "COVID-19 preparedness within the surgical, obstetric and anesthetic ecosystem in Sub Saharan Africa"
- The Distancing of Surgeon from Patient in the era of COVID-19 -- Bring on the Innovation
- Surgical Training During and After COVID-19
- Lung Transplantation for elderly patients with end-stage COVID-19 Pneumonia
- Comment on "Lung Transplantation for elderly patients with end-stage COVID-19 Pneumonia"
- Comment on "Lung Transplantation for elderly patients with end-stage COVID-19 Pneumonia"
- Comment on "Let's Build Bridges to Recovery in COVID-19 ARDS, Not Burn Them"
- Response to comment on "Lung Transplantation for elderly patients with end-stage COVID-19 Pneumonia"
- Response to comment on "Lung Transplantation for elderly patients with end-stage COVID-19 Pneumonia"
- Emergency surgery in suspected COVID-19 patients with acute abdomen- case series and perspectives
- Tracheotomy in ventilated patients with COVID-19
- Comment on "Tracheotomy in ventilated patients with COVID-19"
- Comment on "Tracheotomy in ventilated patients with COVID-19"
- Comment on: Chao TN, Braslow BM, Martin ND, et al. Tracheotomy in ventilated patients with COVID-19, Annals of Surgery, May 5, 2020
- Response to comment on: Tracheotomy in ventilated patients with COVID-19
- COVID-19 & the General Surgical Department - Measures to reduce spread of SARS-COV-2 among Surgeons
- An emergency surgery in severe case infected by COVID-19 with perforated duodenal bulb ulcer
- A Low Cost, Safe and Effective Method for Smoke Evacuation in Laparoscopic Surgery for Suspected Coronavirus Patients
- Response to the letter to the editor about our article "A Low Cost, Safe and Effective Method for Smoke Evacuation in Laparoscopic Surgery for Suspected Coronavirus Patients"
- Comment on A Low Cost, Safe and Effective Method for Smoke Evacuation in Laparoscopic Surgery for Suspected Coronavirus Patients
- Protecting Surgical Teams During the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Narrative Review and Clinical Considerations
- Comment on Screening of Patients for SARS-CoV-2: Screening of Asymptomatic Surgical Patients for SARS-CoV-2 from the Covid19 Subcommittee of the Operating Room Executive Committee
- Comment on "Beware of Too Aggressive Approach in Children With Acute Abdomen During COVID-19 Outbreak!"
- A Risk Model of Admitting Patients with Silent SARS-CoV-2 Infection to Surgery and Development of Severe Postoperative Outcomes and Death: Projections Over 24 Months for 5 Geographical Regions
- Acute Thrombosis of Lower Limbs Arteries in the Acute Phase and After Recovery from Covid-19 Infection
- Comment On "Acute Thrombosis of Lower Limbs Arteries in the Acute Phase and After Recovery from COVID19 Infection"
- African Americans Struggle with the Current COVID-19
- COVID-19 - Considerations and Implications for Surgical Learners
- Dear Program, What I Wish You Would Do: Applicants' Concerns About and Suggestions for Applying to Surgical Residency During COVID-19
- Elective Surgery and COVID-19: A Framework for the Untested Patient
- Emergency Surgery in Suspected COVID-19 Patients with Acute Abdomen: Case Series and Perspectives
- Estimating the Impact of Extended Delay to Surgery for Stage I Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer on Survival: Lessons for the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Ethics of Codes and Codes of Ethics: When is it Ethical to Provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
- European Surgical Association (ESA) During the COVID-19 Time
- Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome
- Increase in Pediatric Perforated Appendicitis in the New York City Metropolitan Region at the Epicenter of the Covid-19 Outbreak
- Outcomes and their State-Level Variation in Patients Undergoing Surgery with Perioperatove SARS-CoV-2 Infection in the USA: A Prospective
- Outcomes of Vascular and Endovascular Interventions Performed during the Coronavirus Disease 20219 (COVID-19) Pandemic: The Vascular and Endovascular Research Network (VERN) COVID-19 Vascular Service (COVER) Tier 2 Study
- Patient Safety Indicators: Inpatient, Outpatient, and COVID-19
- Perioperative Morbidity and Mortality of Patients with COVID-19 who Undergo Urgent and Emergent Surgical Procedures
- Planning the Full Recovery Phase: An Antifragile Perspective on Surgery after COVID-19
- Postoperative Onset and Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Surgically Resected Specimens from Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients with Pre/Asymptomatic COVID-19
- Prone Positioning for Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in COVID-19 Patients by a Dedicated Team: a Safe and Pragmatic Reallocation of Medical and Surgical Work Force in Response to the Outbreak
- Exploring the Experience of the Surgical Workforce During the Covid-19 Pandemic
- Psychological Health of Surgeons in a Time of COVID-19: A Global Survey
- Reducing Moral Distress in the Setting of a Public Health Crisis
- Results of COVID-Minimal Surgical Pathway During Surge-Phase of COVID-19 Pandemic
- Risk of Acquiring Perioperative COVID-19 During the Initial Pandemic Peak: a Retrospective Cohort Study
- Short-Term Effects of Cancelled Elective Procedures Due to COVID-19: Evidence from the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System
- Smoke Evacuation Filters After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Technical Awareness for Safety
- Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy versus Delayed Surgery for Early Stage Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Surgical Procedures in Veterans Affairs Hospitals During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- The Association Between Symptoms and COVID-19 Test Results Among Healthcare Workers
- The COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned for Sustained Trauma Preparedness and Responses
- The Impact of Telemedicine Adoption on a Multidisciplinary Bariatric Surgery Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- The Risk of Postoperative Complications Following Major Elective Surgery in Active or Resolved COVID-19 in the United States
- Time-Varying Reproductive Rates for SARS-CoV-2 and its Implications as a Means of Disease Surveillance on Lockdown Restrictions
- Beware of Too Aggressive Approach in Children with Acute Abdomen During COVID-19 Outbreak!
- Unforseen Collateral Damage of COVID-19 with the Virtualization of Fellowship Interviews
- USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) Surgical Services Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City
- Comment on "Managing COVID-19 in Surgical Systems": An Opportunity for Global Surgery to Advance Global Health
