Handling of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Its Effects on Bariatric Surgical Practice: Analysis of GENEVA Study Database

• DOI: 10.1007/s11695-022-06267-7
• Publication Date: 2022-10-25T05:02:55Z
• Authors: Rishi Singhal; Tom Wiggins; Sjaak Pouwels; Yashasvi Rajeev; Brijesh Madhok; Wasim Hanif; Abd A. Tahrani; Yitka Graham; Christian Ludwig; Kamal Mahawar; ; Miguel Lamota; Salah M. Raslan; Aziz Sumer; Surendra Ugale; Radwan Kassir; Ahmet Z. Balta; Krishnamohan Yarl...; Marcelo L. Fage; Francisco Aguilar...; Aloy J. Mukherjee; Pedro R. Martinez...; Digvijaysingh Bedi; Mahir M. Ozmen; Mohammad Kermansa...; Edoardo Baldini; Mahendra Narwaria; Osama Mohammed Mu...; Abou-Mrad Adel; Chirag Parikh; Christian O. Rami...; Francesco Martini; Randeep Wadhawan; Ronnal P. Vargas; Francesco Pizza; Sergio Carandina; Mehmet Celal Kizi...; Miroslav Ilić; Patricio A. Lamoza; Tuna Bilecik; Marcelo C. Torres; Cesar Guevara; Jose Eduardo Garc...; Nasser Sakran; Sebastian Arana-G...; Manish Khaitan; Faruk Karateke; Victor Valenti; Nicola Tartaglia; Nandakishore Dukk...; Sonja Chiappetta; Mario Musella; Manuel G. Carvalho; Enrico Pinotti; Arun Prasad; Kamran Shah; Efstratia Baili; Syed Imran Abbas; Carlo Nagliati; Octávio Viveiros; Rui J. S. Ribeiro; Luigi Angrisani; Ian S. Soriano; Ahmed Chakib Abbadi; Nilton T. Kawahara; P. Praveen Raj; Ghulam Siddiq; Hany A. Balamoun; Carlos Vaz; Aparna Govil Bhasker; Jacques Himpens; Ajjana Techagumpuch; Apoorv Shrivastava; Mahidhar Valeti; Bernard Bokobza; Ahmad Bashir; Salvatore Avallone; Hugues Sebbag; Miguel Angel Esca...; Agustin E. Rodriguez; Diego Awruch; Camilo Ortiz Silva; Amador Garcia Rui...; Chih-Kun Huang; Emilio Manno; Elena Ruiz-Ucar; Jose M. Balibrea; Steven Paul Marcoen; Cuneyt Kirkil; Almantas Maleckas; Dang Tuan Pham; Eric J. Hazebroek; Waleed Al-Khyatt; Tigran Poghosyan; Julian W. Mall; Rajat Goel; Patrick Noel; Vivek Bindal; Gaurav Prasad; Oscar M. Gomez Da...; Lilian Kow; Marc Focquet; Taryel Omerov; Athanasios Pantelis; Hércio Azevedo De...; Carlos Zerrweck; Viore Dejeu; Safwan A. Taha; Yannko G. Dominguez; Catalin Copaescu; Adriano Ribeiro M...; Fernando J. Marti...; Antonella Usai; Girish Kumar Juneja; Mahmoud Moustafa ...; Nahum Beglaibter; Tadeja Pintar; Neslihan Ağbaba; Marco Anselmino; Anders Thorell; Ozan Şen; Tom Wiggins; Nelson F. Trelles; Gurdal Oren; Andrew G. N. Robe...; Elias Chousleb Mi...; Gustavo Sevá-Pereira; Fabio A. Carvalho; Ahmed Khalil Salman; Giovanni Dapri; Prashant H. Salvi; Murat Uston; Amir Hosein Davar...; Abdollah Zandi; Mustafa I. Allouch; Camilo Boza; Carlos Esquivel; Miguel A. Carbajo; Maaz Ul Hassan; Adrian Augusto Gr...; Mohamad Hayssam E...; Jose Vicente Ferrer; Davide Mazza; Stefano Olmi; Vandana Soni; Matteo Uccelli; Gregory E. Jones; Lakshmi S. Kona; Daniel Cottam; Bekkhan B. Khatsiev; Mauricio Zuluaga ...; Khaled Gawdat; Heitor P. Povoas; Piotr Major; Hazem Al-Momani; Marina Kurian; Fabio Cesare Camp...; David Hazzan; Antone Muneer Alh...; Grzegorz Józef Ko...; Krzysztof Kaseja; Markos Daskalakis; Asnat Raziel; Konstantinos Alba...; Alexandros Charal...; Guido Jutten; Parag G. Patel; Anmol Ahuja; Tarun Mittal; Asim Shabbir; Magan Mehrotra; Enrico Facchiano; Andre Morrell; Antonio J. Torres; Ronald Liem; Terry L. Simpson; Almino C. Ramos; Mazen Takieddine; Sandeep Aggarwal; Pradeep Chowbey; Luigi Piazza; Alen Pajtak; Mohamad Aznan Shu...; Zdenko Boras; Juan S. Azagra; Mohamed Gamal Qassem; Mohey R. Elbanna; Abdulmajid Ali; Rutger Franken; Dimitri Pournaras; Sami Mansour; Nestor Apáez Araujo; Abraham Krikhely; Chetan Parmar; Marcelo Lo; Hqbib Ajami; Rajanikanth Yarram; Hasan Kais; Omer Al-Taan; Michael W. Hii; Francisco J. Barr...; Hosam M. Elghadban; Jorge Jpc Pérez Cruz; Salvador Ramirez; André Lázaro; Manel Riera; Sherif Awad; Guilhermino N. S....; Mauricio E. Valen...; Juan C. Olivares; Juan A. Altuve; Jitesh Parmar; Ricardo V. Cohen; Sergio Verboonen; Maurizio De Luca; Heath J. Antoine; Yangel Núñez Santana; Jhon C. Carrasco ...; Ricardo Cuellar T...; Gilberto Ungson; Paulina Salminen; Evren Dilektasli; Luciano Antozzi; Hussam Z. Adi; Adolfo Leyva-Alvizo; Sandra Viviana An...; Rey J. Romero; Nasir Nizami; Monika Proczko-St...; Marleen Romeijn; Isaac Walker Abreu; Mark Peter; Salena M. Ward; Ricardo Nassar; Hany Mohamed Abdu...; Juan F. Ortega Puy; Mohammed Khalid M...; Wah Yang; Franco Favretti; Jon A. Kristinsson; Moataz M. Bashah; Luis Flávio Vilel...; Felipe J. Cantu; Halit Eren Taskin; Jesus Gonzalez; Peter Lamb; Cristian E. Boru; Abdulzahra Hussain; Bilal Alkhaffaf; P. S. Jambulingam; Chek H. Tog; Jorge D. Picardo; Aleksandr Neimark; Basil J. Ammori; Zhiyong Dong; Ubaldo H. Garcia ...; Laurent Abram Layani; Vincenzo Salsano; Avinash Tank; Bruno Zilberstein; Denis Pajecki; Arin K. Saha; Talat Al Shaban; Ersun Topal; Donald Van Der Fr...; Manuel Enrique Ji...; Fernando P. Galaz; Nael Z. Abdo; Abbas Abdel Rahma...; Luis Poggi; Hüseyin Çiyiltepe; Cacio Ricardo Wie...; Giuseppe G. S. Sc...; Ramen Goel; Newton Teixeira S...; Aatif Inam; Esther Mans; Mohammad Altarawni; Mohammed Al Hadad; Abdelhadi Mejdane; Abdul Aziz Saleh ...; Santiago Martin; Murat Akbaba; Shahzad Alam Shah; Dieter Birk; Md Tanveer Adil; Máximo Max Torres; Haitham Mostafa E...; Karl Miller; Kirubakaran Malapan; Hikmat Matar; Ravikrishna Mamid...; Ahmad A. Gudal; Emad A. Aljohani; Jose Luis Estrada; Felipe E. Fiolo; Mohd Nizam Md Hashim; Manuel-Rodrigo Pr...; Mourad Niazi; Ricardo X. Cuella...; Jerome Dargent; Obaid M. Alharbi; Abhishek Katakwar; Feras Dalati; Sharad Sharma; Tarig A. Samarkandy; Miguel Angel M. F...; Surrendar Dawani; Maria-Teresa Van ...; Marcos Leão P. Vi...; Alaa Abbass Moustafa; Oleg Dukhno; Ahmed Ahmed; Foolad Eghbali; Samik K. Bandyopa...; Amir Ul Haq Khan; Alan GK Li; Matyas Fehervari; Eduardo Silva; Marcos Kostalas; Tamir Salih; Hosam Hamed; Roel Bolckmans; Bassem Amr; Richard Welbourn; Jose Arturo Menes...; Vinod Menon; Bernardo Marzano; Manuel Garcia Garza; Sumit Talwar; Jose Alfredo Jimenez; Jaime R. Ramos-Kelly; Rami Lutfi; Farah A. Husain; Helen M. Heneghan; Kirtik Patel; Maurílio Ribeiro ...; Fabio Viegas; Manuel Avalos-Avalos; Zubaidah Nor Hanipah; Rob Snoekx; Camilo A. Diaz Ri...; Rodrigo Aceves; Muayad Fadhel; Steven A. Cahalan; Dhafer M. Jasim; Mohammed Salim Al...; Mohannad Kamel Al...; Hussein Saleh Ali; Wissam Jaafar Altaee; Hamid Dawood Almu...; Antonio S.B. Silva; Ammar A. Atra; Abdulaziz Abood M...; Ahmed Nasser Al-T...; Omar Salem Alomar; George Kalogeropo...; Ivaylo Georgiev T...; Rana Manindra Raj...; Haris Khwaja; Diego Foschi; Georges Nabih Al ...; Ahmad Assalia; Fadil Khaleal; Maria Solovyeva; Abdou Abdalla Ali...; Hany Takla; Haider A. Alshurafa; Nazim Alrifai; Andres Muñoz-Mora; Gabriel Martinez ...; Victor V. Diaconu; Naif A. Alenazi; Mehmet Kaplan; Paulo C. Grippa; Peter D. Nottle; Luis Antonio C. F...; Roger C. Luciani; Michael L. Talbot; Yun Chan Park; Eduardo Nacur Silva; Giovanni Merola; Vikrant Sharma; Abdelrahman M. El...; Estuardo J. Behrens; Alistair Sharples; Jose M. Pestana; Jeronimo Monterrubio; Eduardo Lemos De ...; Naser Saleh Alalwani; Diya Aldeen Mohammed; Heidi Louise Kath...; Francois N. Schutte; Adrian Sava; Mª De Los Angeles...; Dick A. Manrique; Shahab Shahabi; Cem EMIR Guldogan; Daniel Gärtner; Rachid KSAN Ksantini; Etienne Boutry; Guilherme S. Mazzini; Karl P. Rheinwalt; Alberto Pagan; Oral Ospanov; Sukhvinder Singh ...; Saud AES. Alsubaie; Maciej Walędziak; Basmah Fallatah; Andreas Edenberg; Mohammed Abdullah; Neil R. Floch; Johnny Stewart; Daniel V. Timofte; Aram E. Jawed; Amit Bhambri; Mohamed Hany; Sapan A. Jain; Ioannis Terzis; Luis Level; Mohamad Abdulkade...; Hassan Ahmed; Michael Devadas; Antonio Cláudio J...; Shashank S. Shah; Rodrigo J. Anacon...; Alexander B. Pala...; Diyaree Nihad Ismael; Usama Iqbal; Héctor R. Herrera; David Goitein; Reynaldo M. Quinino; Georgios Spiliopo...; Pablo Pjz Zambrana; Rodrigo Villagran; Ahmad Ghazal; Francesco Frattini; Marco Battistoni; Konstantinos Stamou; Zsolt Bodnar; Hüseyin Sinan; Vijaya L. Nirujogi; Osama Taha; Songhao Hu; Mohammad Eid M. M...; L. Ulas Biter; Hamza Ibrahim; Lynz Jordan; January Hill; Mohammed Mustafa ...; Luis X. Armijos; Ramon Vilallonga; Luis Alberto Zaba...; Jerome F. Schrapps; Khalid Al Amri; Guillermo J. Muzio; Abdulmenem Yahya ...; Marina Kurian; Lukasz Szczerbinski; Carlos M. Trindade; Ahmed Forieg; Fallon Schwoch; Laurent Genser; Ahmed Osman; Mariano De Almeid...; Halil Özgüç; Hercio A. V. Cunha; Mohamed Saïd Sbaï...; Barış Gülcü; Alessandro Contine; Lucas Felix Rossi; Arda Isik; Omar A. Khan; Luiz Gustavo De O...; Mehmet Kadir Bartın; Samet Yardımcı; Erkan Yardimci; E. Paulo Pinto; Ibrahim Abdelhami...; Chee Loong Yeap; Rafael Arias; Ahmed H. Hamouda; Evelyn A. Dorado; Celso Simoneti; Peter Vasas; Luca Paolino; Roberto Cisneros ...; Vincenzo Borrelli; Adeel A. Shamim; Miguel F. Herrera; Julio Galindo Alv...; Wei Jin Wong; Shalvin R. Prasad; Sherif Aly; Fatih Can Karaca; Sylvia Weiner; Mehmet Altug Kazak; Manish Motwani; Çağrı Büyükkasap; Andrea Rizzi; Samiullah Khan Niazi; Madhi Hashim Alat...; Nikolaos Pararas; Aini F. Ibrahim; Dali Youssef; Joao Caetano Marc...; Jose-Maria V. Cor...; Aditi Shreekumar; Ibrahim Elwardany; Semra Demirli Atici; Javier Lorenzo Pérez; Kin Cheung Ng; Christine Stier; Mohammed Hany Ashour; Haitham M. Elmaleh; Carlos A. S. Mada...; Peter Vasas; Salah Raslan
• Keywords: Pandemic; Personal Protective Equipment

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic led to a worldwide suspension of bariatric and metabolic surgery (BMS) services. current study analyses data on patterns service delivery, recovery practices, protective measures taken during the COVID-19 by teams.The is subset analysis GENEVA which was an international cohort between 01/05/2020 31/10/2020. Data were specifically analysed regarding timing BMS suspension, recovery, precautionary deployed.A total 527 surgeons from 439 hospitals in 64 countries submitted their practices handling pandemic. Smaller (with less than 200 beds) able restart programmes more rapidly (time 60.8 ± 38.9 days) larger institutions (over 2000 (81.3 30.5 (p = 0.032). There significant difference time interval cessation/reduction services government-funded (97.1 76.2 days), combination (84.4 47.9 private (58.5 38.3 < 0.001). Precautionary adopted included patient segregation, utilisation personal equipment, preoperative testing. Following 40% operated with reduced capacity. Twenty-two percent gave priority long waiters, 15.4% uncontrolled diabetics, 7.6% prioritised patients requiring organ transplantation.This provides global, real-world following