Testing for coronarvirus disease 2019 before cardiac surgery—safe outcome of infected patients

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• who: Torbjörn Ivert from the We included all , patients who underwent cardiac surgery operation from March , through December , at the Karolinska University in Stockholm, SwedenThe capacity to perform elective as well as acute openheart surgery was not reduced during the pandemic as symptomatic , cases referred to the hospital were allocated to other wards. Every patient regardless of previous infection were screened for , on nasopharynx swabs by real-time reverse transcription PCR test for SARS-CoV-2-RNA (ribonucleic acid) with high sensitivity [5]. The samples were collected within , hours before planned surgery by a trained nurse . . .
  

   

  

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