Table 5.

Tips and tricks to make laparoscopy safer during the COVID-19 pandemic

1. Use a closed suction system.

2. Avoid redundant incisions.

3. Use leak free trocars such as balloon trocars.

4. Avoid creating a leak for smoke evacuation.

5. Aspirate the entire pneumoperitoneum before retrieving a specimen, at the end of the procedure before removing the trocars or before conversion to open surgery.

6. In case of a lack of skills and adapted materials enabling a safe laparoscopic surgical intervention, laparotomy should be preferred.