How emergency surgery has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Various surgical societies constantly update their recommendations in order to adapt surgical activity on current Pandemic conditions. The aim of this study is to analyze how hospitalizations and emergency operations have changed in our Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences in the Hospital of Foggia during covid-19 pandemic.

Methods

Our cohort-study was conducted by analyzing two groups of patients admitted to the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences of the Hospital of Foggia: those admitted during the no-covid period from March 09th, 2019 to May 09th, 2019 and those during the covid period from March 09th, 2020 to May 09th, 2020.

Results

A total of 750 patients admitted during the no-covid period of 2019 and 171 during the covid period of 20

SUBMITTER: Tartaglia N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7719013 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature