AHA, others release additional guidance for resuming elective surgeries

AHA, others release additional guidance for resuming elective surgeries tjordan_drupal May 19, 2020

The AHA, Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, and AdvaMed today released clinically based guidance to support the safe reentry of medical device representatives into hospitals and other surgical facilities as they resume elective surgeries paused during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Building on an April 17 roadmap for safely resuming elective surgery released by the AHA, AORN, American College of Surgeons and American Society of Anesthesiologists, the guidance recommends hospitals provide personal protective equipment to medical device representatives essential to an invasive procedure and that