LitCovid-sentences  

PMC:7417198 / 99-1983 JSONTXT 10 Projects

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T3 0-10 Sentence denotes Background
T4 11-79 Sentence denotes COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the global health systems worldwide.
T5 80-242 Sentence denotes According to the tremendous rate of interhuman transmission via aerosols and respiratory droplets, severe measures have been required to contain contagion spread.
T6 243-470 Sentence denotes Accordingly, medical and surgical maneuvers involving the respiratory mucosa and, among them, transnasal transsphenoidal surgery have been charged of maximum risk of spread and contagion, above all for healthcare professionals.
T7 472-478 Sentence denotes Method
T8 479-842 Sentence denotes Our department, according to the actual COVID-19 protocol national guidelines, has suspended elective procedures and, in the last month, only three patients underwent to endoscopic endonasal procedures, due to urgent conditions (a pituitary apoplexy, a chondrosarcoma causing cavernous sinus syndrome, and a pituitary macroadenoma determining chiasm compression).
T9 843-1092 Sentence denotes We describe peculiar surgical technique modifications and the use of an endonasal face mask, i.e., the nose lid, to be applied to the patient during transnasal procedures for skull base pathologies as a further possible COVID-19 mitigation strategy.
T10 1094-1101 Sentence denotes Results
T11 1102-1394 Sentence denotes The nose lid is cheap, promptly available, and can be easily assembled with the use of few tools available in the OR; this mask allows to both operating surgeon and his assistant to perform wider surgical maneuvers throughout the slits, without ripping it, while limiting the nostril airflow.
T12 1396-1407 Sentence denotes Conclusions
T13 1408-1655 Sentence denotes Transnasal surgery, transgressing respiratory mucosa, can definitely increase the risk of virus transmission: we find that adopting further precautions, above all limiting high-speed drill can help preventing or at least reducing aerosol/droplets.
T14 1656-1884 Sentence denotes The creation of a non-rigid face mask, i.e., the nose lid, allows the comfortable introduction of instruments through one or both nostrils and, at the same time, minimizes the release of droplets from the patient’s nasal cavity.