Joint Statement: Roadmap for Resuming Elective Surgery after COVID-19 PandemicAmerican College of Surgeons American Society of Anesthesiologists Association of periOperative Registered Nurses American Hospital Association
Introduction In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Surgeon General and many medical specialties such as the American College of Surgeons and the American Society of Anesthesiologists recommended interim ca...

Developed by the American College of Surgeons, American Society of Anesthesiologists, and Association of periOperative Registered Nurses.

The COVID-19 crisis is requiring hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers throughout the country to defer nonessential surgery to preserve personal protective equipment (PPE), protect the safety of health care professionals, and allocate potentially scarce resources for the care of the COVID-19 patient. In the past week, the American College of S...

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) published a guidance about how to properly set up a RMOC, a Regional Medical Operations Center. It is a single point of shared situational awareness and information that can implement effective command and control for the medical response to a large-scale mass casualty incident. The RMOC allows coordination across all EMS agencies, hospitals, public health representatives, and emergency management leaderships. Therefore, it allows for a better communicat...

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) is updating twice-weekly this website where you can find different guidelines on how to chose which procedures should be curtailed. In this regard, they continue to recommend that surgeons curtail the performance of “elective” surgical procedures. 
In the list below, you will find recommendations for each specific specialty: 
Cancer Surgery

Breast Cancer Surgery

Colorectal Cancer Surgery

Thoracic Cancer Surgery

Emergency...