Objectives This review provides an assessment of recent published or
presented trends of perioperative healthcare of COVID-19 which is
hitting the world, to provide refer for the frontline medical staff
during the outbreak of epidemic, especially for surgeons and
anesthesiologists. Methods Searching and reviewing recent published or
presented articles about the COVID-19 from PubMed, COVID-19 center of
ScienceDirect, Medline, JAMA, The LANCET, MedRxiv, some main Chinese
journals and so on. Results The coronavirus disease 2019 has heightened
infectious probability and has caused hundreds of thousands death. How
to recognize, treat, and overcome this disease is a problem that all
medical staff and all humans need to face. First, we should correctly
identify suspicious and diagnosed patients and take protection levels
according to the type of patients. Surgery and endoscopy are a serious
issue during the epidemic, unless emergency condition. Once COVID-19
patients have to accept surgery, more detailed issues should be
considered. Besides, special management methods should be implemented
for special COVID-19 patients. Conclusion Safety for patients and
healthcare providers is very important, we should do what we can do to
cut off the spread of the virus in hospital and reduce the risk of
infection.