Reintroduction of Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Through COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience at a High-Volume Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Centre in India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 was declared as a pandemic in March 2020. Government of India declared a countrywide lockdown on 24 March 2020. All elective surgeries including Hip and Knee arthroplasty were postponed in view of pandemic. Gradually cases were resumed after stepwise unlock measures. The aim of this study is to assess how hip and knee arthroplasty surgeries were affected during first wave of pandemic, and how situation was tackled by an arthroplasty unit of a tertiary-care hospital in India.

Methods

This study was a single-centre retrospective observational study. Data pertaining to patient demographic details, surgery, preoperative screening for COVID-19, duration of hospital stay, and post-op 30-day complications were collected from hospital records and analyzed. These

SUBMITTER: Sonawane CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10441840 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature