id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-335323-p7cv79ig DeSerres, Joshua J. Best Practice Guidelines for the Management of Acute Craniomaxillofacial Trauma During the COVID-19 Pandemic 2020-05-11 .txt text/plain 4205 217 44 The authors have proposed an algorithm for management of CMF trauma during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that urgent and emergent CMF injuries are addressed appropriately while optimizing the safety of surgeons and other healthcare providers. So far there has been a significant mortality of otolaryngologists and ophthalmologists in the Wuhan region, thought to be related to exposure to aerosolized virus from the nasal and oral airway mucosa from high risk procedures such as CMF trauma and sinus operations and in some patients despite the use of N95 masks. 19, 20 Given that the majority of CMF trauma procedures involve violation of the mucosa of the oral cavity and sinuses, these patients place the surgeons and the remainder of the operating room staff at high risk of exposure during the COVID-19 pandemic. ./cache/cord-335323-p7cv79ig.txt ./txt/cord-335323-p7cv79ig.txt