Table 6.

Highlights of urgent medical procedure section.

Reference	Highlights
Ashry and Alsawy, 2020 [48]	Evaluating the safety and effectiveness of telehealth visits in offering post-operative neurosurgical care for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic
Mouchtouris, Lavergne, Montenegro, Gonzalez, Baldassari, Sharan, Jabbour, Harrop, Rosenwasser and Evans, 2020 [49]	Discussing the telehealth utilization and post-operative visits only in neurosurgery to address the needs of the patients during the COVID-19 pandemic
Parisien, Shin, Constant, Saltzman, Li, Levine and Trofa, 2020 [50]	Investigating how telehealth can assess the current telehealth utilization capabilities at surgery programs and departments during the COVID-19 pandemic
Franco, Montenegro, Gonzalez, Hines, Mahtabfar, Helgeson, Patel and Harrop, 2020 [51]	Discussing improvement in technology and the feasibility of performing a sustainable spine surgery utilizing telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic
Tan, Thadani, Chan, Oh and Liu, 2020 [52]	Discussing and providing guidance related to the introduction of telehealth, triaging of spinal surgeries and guidance during the COVID-19 pandemic
Daggubati, Eichberg, Ivan, Hanft, Mansouri, Komotar, D'Amico and Zacharia, 2020 [53]	Discussing neurosurgical service delivery for a population of at-risk neuro-oncology patients and the telehealth care paradigm implementation during the COVID-19 pandemic
Layfield, Triantafillou, Prasad, Deng, Shanti, Newman and Rajasekaran, 2020 [54]	Discussing head and neck surgeon visits and patient satisfaction with such visits during the COVID-19 pandemic
Ryu, Kerolus and Traynelis, 2021 [55]	Evaluating neurosurgeons and advanced practice providers to characterise their experience in utilizing telehealth services
Lakshin, Banek, Keese, Rolle and Schmedding, 2021 [56]	Discussing the utilization of telemedicine in paediatric surgery clinic, and evaluating the experiences of patients and surgeons with telemedicine