Ethics for the Neurosurgeons in COVID-19 Pandemic

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has affected the lives of a million people worldwide and has put healthcare workers, particularly neurosurgeons, under challenging situations.1 The medico-legal facts of the practice of neurosurgeons in COVID-19 prompted us to delve more into the ethical issues surrounding the neurosurgical practice during this pandemic. We would want to focus on the ethical concerns that neurosurgeons faced during COVID-19 and the urgency of neurosurgical procedures compared to other surgery. Patients that require neurosurgical treatments are a particular group of patients whose diseases are time-sensitive, according to the patients’ optimum care. Unlike most other body cells and tissues, neurons exposed to insults are prone to irreparable damage over time.2 As a result, postponing most neurosurgical operations, especially elective ones, poses a difficult ethical burden.2 The pandemic COVID-19 outbreak had a significant impact on world healthcare, with Europe experiencing its worst. When the pandemic initially broke out, clinics were canceled, and elective procedures were halted. Some research looked at the actual variety of neurosurgical procedures throughout a vast area when the practice was most restricted owing to a COVID-19 through a multicenter survey.3 European Association for Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) introduces suggestions for elective neurosurgery and a neurosurgery triage system.