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. 2020 Apr 13:e20.00510. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.20.00510

TABLE I.

Procedures Continuing to Be Performed During the COVID-19 Outbreak at Our Institution*

Trauma-Related Oncological Infection-Related Other
  • Open fractures

  • Pathological fractures (including impending pathological fractures)

  • Select closed fractures that, if left untreated for >30 days, may lead to loss of function or permanent disability

  • Irreducible dislocation of native or prosthetic joints

  • Penetrating wounds into bone or joints

  • Penetrating nervous system injury

  • Peripheral nerve injuries and compression syndromes with severe symptoms

  • Spinal column injury causing instability with or without symptoms

  • Procedures performed to diagnose cancer that will lead to active treatment

  • Biopsy-proven cancer with risk of metastasis or progression of disease

  • Biopsy for nodule/mass with risk of cancer diagnosis

  • Spinal column tumor with clinical and radiographic evidence of spinal cord compression (weakness, bowel/bladder dysfunction, sensory changes, pain) or intractable pain

  • Lymph node biopsy

  • Ancillary procedures related to cancer care

  • Deep-tissue infection

  • Periprosthetic infection

  • Joint infection

  • Necrotizing fasciitis

  • Wound infection

  • Compartment syndrome

  • Amputations related to limb ischemia/infection/trauma

  • Wound dehiscence

  • Hematoma evacuation

  • Displaced meniscal tears associated with locked knee

  • Select acute ligament disruptions

  • Tendon lacerations and ruptures

  • Cerebrospinal fluid leak

  • Cord compression or cauda equina syndrome causing myelopathy or rapidly evolving loss of neurological function

*

List is accurate as of March 25, 2020.