Letter: The Risk of COVID-19 Infection During Neurosurgical Procedures: A Review of Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Modes of Transmission and Proposed Neurosurgery-Specific Measures for Mitigation

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Neurosurgery Department of Surgery Université de Sherbrooke Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
• ² Division of Neurosurgery Department of Surgery University of Toronto University Health Network - TWH Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ³ Division of Neurosurgery Department of Surgery University of British Columbia Blusson Spinal Cord Center Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• ⁴ CIUSSS du Nord de l'Ile de Montréal Hôpital de Sacré-Coeur de Montréal Montréal, Québec, Canada.
• ⁵ Division of Neurosurgery Department of Surgery Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• ⁶ Division of Neurosurgery Department of Surgery University of British Columbia BC Children's Hospital Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• ⁷ Division of Neurosurgery Department of Surgery Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal Montréal, Québec, Canada.
• ⁸ Division of Neurosurgery Department of Pediatric Surgery McGill University The Montreal Children's Hospital Montréal, Québec, Canada.
• ⁹ Division of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Department of Surgery Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
• ¹⁰ Department of Anesthesiology Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
• ¹¹ Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.