In order to assist, educate and support our members and caregivers during these trying times of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the AHNS has created this COVID-19 Bulletin Board. This will serve as an actively evolving repository for information – clinical and scientific – related to the COVID-19 Pandemic and the care of head & neck patients. We ask that submissions be brief, focused and clinically relevant. Information can be submitted by clicking the image on the right. Once submitted, the information will be evaluated and cleared by appropriate leadership members within the Divisions, Services and Sections of the AHNS.
Our colleagues, experiences and relations are our greatest resource. This Bulletin Board will allow us to leverage this powerful and important resource for the betterment of patient care and our caregiver colleagues during this crisis.
- Clearing the surgical backlog caused by COVID-19 in Ontario: a time series modeling study (September 2020)
- AHNS Return to Practice Guidelines (June 2020)
- AHNS Return to Practice Guidelines – Skull Base Surgery (June 2020)
- Framework for Prioritizing Head & Neck Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Head&Neck, April 2020)
- Wuhan Case of Covid-19 Transmission During Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery (May 2020)
- Transmission During Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery (May 2020)
- COVID-19 versus Cancer: Impact on Head and Neck Oncology (April 20, 2020)
- Considerations on H&N during COVID-19 (Irish Head & Neck Society, April 17, 2020)
- Editorial: How Fragile We Are – Dr. Ehab Hanna, MD FACS – Editor-in-Chief, HEAD & NECK (April 10, 2020)
- An Ethical Framework for Head & Neck Cancer Care Impacted by COVID-19 (AHNS Ethics & Professionalism Service, April 8, 2020)
- A Message from the AHNS Endocrine Section to our patients (April 6, 2020)
- Policy for COVID testing for patients with existing tracheostomes (University of Oklahoma, April 7, 2020)
- Tracheotomy Recommendations During the COVID-19 Pandemic (AAO-HNS, March 27, 2020)
- Considerations for Optimum Surgeon Protection Before, During & After Operation (ACS, March 27, 2020)
- AHNS COVID-19 Practice Patterns Spreadsheet (March 31, 2020)
- Cancer patients in SARS-CoV-2 infection: a nationwide analysis in China (The Lancet Oncology, March 1, 2020)
- Endocrine Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic (AHNS Endocrine Section, March 24, 2020)
- COVID-19 Resources (from the Society of Surgical Oncology)
- Information for Head and Neck Cancer Survivors During the COVID-19 Pandemic (from the Survivorship, Supportive Care & Rehabilitation Service. March 23, 2020)
- Information for Head and Neck Oncologists During the COVID-19 Pandemic (from the Survivorship, Supportive Care & Rehabilitation Service. March 23, 2020)
- Synopsis of the University of Toronto’s Approach (submitted by Dr. Jonathan Irish, March 22, 2020)
- Synopsis of MUSC’s Policy (submitted by Dr. Terry Day, March 22, 2020)
- Guidance for ENT surgeons during the COVID-19 pandemic (Australian Society of Oto HNS, March 20, 2020)
- Practical Aspects of Otolaryngologic Clinical Services During the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Epidemic – An Experience in Hong Kong (JAMA-Oto, March 20, 2020)
- Guidance for Surgical Tracheostomy and Tracheostomy Tube Change during the COVID-19 Pandemic (ENT UK, March 19, 2020)
- British Association of Head & Neck Oncologists – Statement on COVID-19 (BAHNO, March 17, 2020)
- Managing Cancer Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Agility and Collaboration Toward a Common Goal (Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, March 15, 2020)
- Pandemic Planning Clinical Guideline for Patients with Cancer (Ontario Health, March 10, 2020)
- Integrated infection control strategy to minimize nosocomial infection of coronavirus disease 2019 among ENT healthcare workers (Journal of Hospital Infection, February 22, 2020)