{"title":"Utilizing an office based laboratory (OBL) during the COVID-19 pandemic for vascular surgical patients","authors":"Suzanna Fitzpatrick DNP, ACNP-BC, FNP-BC , Eleanor Dunlap ACNP-BC , Shannon Hawkins BSN, RN, CNOR, RNFA , Khanjan Nagarsheth MD, MBA, RPVI , Rajabrata Sarkar MD, PhD","doi":"10.1016/j.jvn.2022.12.003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>COVID-19 pandemic brought new challenges in healthcare including the need to create tiered class recommendations about which types patients to treat urgently and which surgical cases to defer. This is a report of a single center's Office Based Laboratory (OBL) system to prioritize vascular patients and preserve acute care resources and personnel. In reviewing three months of data, it appears that by continuing to provide the urgent care needed for this chronically ill population, the insurmountable backup of surgical procedures is prevented in the operating room once elective surgeries resumed. The OBL was able to continue providing care at the same pre-pandemic rate to a large intercity population.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9790873/pdf/","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1062030322000863","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
COVID-19 pandemic brought new challenges in healthcare including the need to create tiered class recommendations about which types patients to treat urgently and which surgical cases to defer. This is a report of a single center's Office Based Laboratory (OBL) system to prioritize vascular patients and preserve acute care resources and personnel. In reviewing three months of data, it appears that by continuing to provide the urgent care needed for this chronically ill population, the insurmountable backup of surgical procedures is prevented in the operating room once elective surgeries resumed. The OBL was able to continue providing care at the same pre-pandemic rate to a large intercity population.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.