This week, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) issued new guidance that offers a set of principles to help facilities plan for resuming elective procedures. The ACS document outlines 10 distinct considerations to be addressed locally before elective surgery may be safely reinstituted. As COVID-19 rates reach their peak in Kansas over the next week or two (depending on location), practices may use this guidance to determine that resuming elective operations would be safe and in the best interest of their patients’ health.

Dr. Scott Coates—General Surgeon at Labette Health and Governor of the Kansas Chapter of the ACS—joins us in today’s podcast to help walk through the 10 considerations outlined in the new ACS guidance.

The ACS guidance and other documents referenced in this episode are available at www.KMSonline.org/ACS.