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Emergency surgery in the COVID era
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Department of General Surgery, Edmund Biernacki Hospital, Mielec, Poland
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Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Rzeszów, Poland
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Department of General Surgery, St.Queen Jadwiga Hospital, Rzeszów, Poland
Submission date: 2023-01-29
Acceptance date: 2023-04-17
Publication date: 2023-04-17
Corresponding author
2023;1(1):1–3
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We describe the case of a COVID-positive patient with a clinical diagnosis of acute appendicitis who was a prisoner at a maximum security facility without access to a prison surgical ward. The administrative and legal issues related to admitting and treating this patient on a standard surgical ward are briefly discussed.
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