The specialist journal Colorectal Disease has recently published new results from the international multicentre study on surgery and COVID-19 called CovidSurg, in which one of the participants is Dr Pablo Collera, member of the Gastrointestinal Oncology, Endoscopy and Surgery research group (GOES) and head of the General Surgery service at Althaia. The article is entitled The impact of surgical delay on resectability of colorectal cancer: An international prospective cohort study.
The study, which included 5,453 patients from 304 hospitals in 47 countries, has shown that the surgical delay in colon cancer caused by the pandemic has not negatively affected the procedure or the patients’ survival rate. The article can be consulted via this link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35286766/
GOES’s collaboration with CovidSurg has generated a significant scientific output. CovidSurg comprises centres from more than 120 countries and aims to evaluate the impact of COVID on the efficacy and safety of surgical procedures. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, Dr Collera and other researchers from the General Surgery and Digestive System and Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology departments of the Fundació Althaia have contributed to 15 articles, the vast majority published in first quartile journals (including The Lancet, The Lancet Oncology and Journal of Clinical Oncology, with impact factors over 40), with a cumulative impact factor of 231,011 and more than 1,000 cumulative citations. The articles are the following:
SARS-CoV-2 infection and venous thromboembolism after surgery: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia. 2022 Jan. Q1 IF 6.955. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34428858/
Effects of pre-operative isolation on postoperative pulmonary complications after elective surgery: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia. 2021 Nov. Q1 IF 6.955. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34371522/
SARS-CoV-2 vaccination modelling for safe surgery to save lives: data from an international prospective cohort study. Br J Surg. 2021 Sep. Q1 IF 6.939. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33761533/
Timing of surgery following SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia. 2021 Jun. Q1 IF 6.955. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33690889/
Delaying surgery for patients with a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection. Br J Surg. 2020 Nov. Q1 IF 6.939. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32974904/
Mortality and pulmonary complications in patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international cohort study. Lancet. 2020 Jul 4. Q1 IF 79.323. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32479829/
The impact of surgical delay on resectability of colorectal cancer: An international prospective cohort study. Colorectal Dis. 2022 Mar. Q1 IF 3.788. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35286766/
Outcomes from elective colorectal cancer surgery during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Colorectal Dis. 2020 Nov. Q1 IF 3.788. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33191669/
Effect of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on planned cancer surgery for 15 tumour types in 61 countries: an international, prospective, cohort study. Lancet Oncol. 2021 Nov. Q1 IF 41.316. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34624250/
Elective Cancer Surgery in COVID-19-Free Surgical Pathways During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: An International, Multicenter, Comparative Cohort Study. J Clin Oncol. 2021 Jan. Q1 IF 44.544. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33021869/
Machine learning risk prediction of mortality for patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2: the COVIDSurg mortality score. Br J Surg. 2021 Nov. Q1 IF 6.939. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34227657/
Death following pulmonary complications of surgery before and during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Br J Surg. 2021 Dec. Q1 IF 6.939. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34871379/
Outcomes after perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients with proximal femoral fractures: an international cohort study. BMJ Open. 2021 Nov. Q2 IF 2.692. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34848515/
Preoperative nasopharyngeal swab testing and postoperative pulmonary complications in patients undergoing elective surgery during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Br J Surg. 2021 Jan. Q1 IF 6.939. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33640908/
