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Abstract

Due to sanitary crisis, shortage on personal protection equipment (PPE) and a considerable
increment in demand for hospital services, surgery activity decreased as well as the number of
patients for such interventions. Regardless, the organization for the surgery services and the
prompt answer on its professional allowed to face pandemic from a different perspective.
Surgery did not lower its guards and continued its activities despite the contingencies on
pathologies, which achieve to put humanity on a tight spot, and made patients with true
emergency stop going to hospitals to avoid further contagiousness. Nevertheless, severe septic
shocks sickness increased on COVID-19 related patients, complicated rates in the long term,
hospital incomes and late diagnosis, and mortality in general, implied a delay in procedures with
the consequent load in the intensive care units and surgery rooms.
As a consequence, different countries in the world accounted strategies such as: implement
home care services to identify patients with emergency surgery needs, divide the channels on
emergency needs for infected patients or those who had close contact with them; and those
who had not had, and in cases with pediatric surgery needs, to relieve the emergency room load,
building a specialized service in pediatric surgery emergency attention.