en تخصصي Special مروری Review <strong>Background</strong>: The primary purpose of this literature review is to investigate different views of elective surgery management during the COVID-19 pandemic. In other words, the guidelines about diseases prevention and their proper management during performing elective surgeries have been reviewed.<br> <strong>Materials and Methods</strong>: Current articles related to COVID-19 and practicing elective surgeries in different remarkable EndNote X8 database journals in 2020 were retrieved. All articles referring to COVID-19 precaution rules in implementing elective surgeries were integrated into the article&rsquo;s main goals.<br> <strong>Results</strong>: All reviews showed alarming guideline steps that should be taken for validated preventing and managing elective surgeries practiced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Emphasizing qualified elective surgery protocols were quoted in many articles to do elective surgeries with successful results.<br> <strong>Conclusion</strong>: Taking effective and evidence-based steps in patients` selection, precautions, and hospitals` safety cares result in protective surgical results. Elective surgeries should be practiced in highly-equipped hospitals with extraordinary quarantine measures during a COVID-19 pandemic. Safety measures are the primary goal for patients, staff, surgeons, and other health providers before surgeons get involved with any elective surgeries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Questions of how different elective surgical operations are planned during the COVID-19 pandemic are essential controversies. As no clear answers are found to questions of how elective surgeries can be practiced during a COVID-19 pandemic, specific rules issued by the world&rsquo;s most authentic surgical associations have been adopted by surgeons to operate elective surgeries. COVID-19, Elective surgery, Guidelines, Pandemic, Disaster 67 72 http://hdq.uswr.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-60-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Hashem Shemshadi shemshadii@gmail.com 0000-0002-5681-9432 Yes Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Fereydoon Layeghi layeghi@yahoo.com 0000-0001-5947-2334 No Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Bijan Khorasani bkhorasany@hotmail.com 0000-0002-4576-1036 No Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.