As different parts of the United States begin to reopen for business, patients, clinicians and health care institutions alike are looking forward to resuming nonemergent and elective surgeries. But in a country that has documented about 1.6 million cases (as of May 22 from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center)—of about 5.2 million globally—how can this be done safely and responsibly?
To help answer this question, the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), American