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With your health and safety in mind, we’ve added even more safeguards in advance of your procedure and we need your partnership to keep you safe and so that we stay safe.
At CommonSpirit, we extend the healing ministry of Christ and we care for people in mind, body and spirit. We’re dedicated to partnering with you to safely deliver the care you need.
We know that COVID-19 spreads by:
- Touching a surface or object with the virus on it and then touching your face, or;
- Being near a sick person for a prolonged period of time (>15 minutes) where virus can spread through the air by sneezing, coughing and talking.
- Please take extra precautions to protect yourself from getting COVID-19 prior to your scheduled surgery.
If you do get COVID-19 prior to your scheduled surgery, CommonSpirit Health has worked with our care teams to add the following safeguards to protect you from complications associated with COVID infection and surgery and to protect our staff from infection.
- Elective surgeries will be postponed if your scheduled surgery is within two weeks of a COVID-19 infection. This will allow anesthesiologists and surgeons to assess how severe your symptoms are and to reduce unnecessary risk of transmitting the infection to health care professionals. Please ensure your surgical or procedural team knows if you had a recent COVID-19 infection.
- Between two and seven weeks after your COVID-19 infection, anesthesiologists and surgeons or proceduralists will conduct a risk assessment, which will include factors such as age, severity of the infection and surgical risk.
- If you and your surgery are determined to be low-risk, the anesthesiologist and surgeon will discuss with you about scheduling the procedure between two and seven weeks after your COVID-19 infection. This decision will take into account whether the risk of proceeding exceeds the risk of delay.
- A delay of your surgery beyond seven weeks will be considered if you continue to have COVID-19 symptoms