Watch RECORDING: Webinar on COVID-19 & Minimally Invasive Surgery

The Global Surgery Foundation, in collaboration with Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery (EBRS), hosted a Webinar Journal Club. The Webinar will reviewed the journal article “Minimally Invasive Surgery and the Novel Coronovirus Outbreak: Lessons Learned in China and Italy. Annals of Surgery. MH Zheng, L Boni, A. Fingerhut.”

The one hour event involved a review of this new paper examining the use of MIS in the setting of the coronavirus pandemic. Using the Users Guide to the Medical Literature: Clinical Practice Guidelines as the methodologic framework from which to review this paper, the expert reviewers reviewed this paper and assessed the recommendations made by the paper along with the validity of these recommendations.

This discussion occured in the context of a pragmatic real-world scenario, including health systems experiencing resource scarcity.

Moderators:
Dr Carl Brown (University of British Columbia)
Dr. Jason Park (University of Manitoba).

Reviewers:
Dr. Sarah Moore: Methodology (University of Toronto)
Dr. Sharon Stein: Clinical (University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Centre)
Dr. Christopher Schlachta: Clinical (University of Western Ontario)

This event is part of the Online Event Series organized by UNITAR’s Division for People and Social Inclusion.

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