A postoperative follow-up consultation is normally carried out 2 weeks after discharge. During the pandemic, our institution became a COVID-19 hotspot, so to reduce exposure to the virus, we performed remote consultations by telephone [12] 1 week after discharge. We also added questions to the follow-up telephone consultation to screen for COVID-19 respiratory symptoms. If COVID-19 symptoms were detected, we recommended that the patient go to the emergency room. Once in the emergency room, the patient was examined and if clinical suspicion of COVID-19 was high, diagnostic tests (chest radiography and PCR) were performed.