Open AccessNeurosurgical departments functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic - report
Author(s) -
Zygmunt Siedlecki,
Karol Nowak,
Maciej Śniegocki
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of education, health and sport
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2391-8306
DOI - 10.12775/jehs.2021.11.02.001
Subject(s) - pandemic , neurosurgery , covid-19 , medicine , isolation (microbiology) , medical emergency , exacerbation , work (physics) , intensive care medicine , surgery , virology , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , engineering , disease , microbiology and biotechnology , mechanical engineering , outbreak , biology
We present a short article on the actual state of functioning of neurosurgical departments, performing neurosurgical procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic on the example of our department - Department of Neurosurgery, Neurotraumatology and Pediatric Neurosurgery of Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum of Nicolaus Copernicus University. The pandemic disrupted so far, proper work of neurosurgical departments and put neurosurgeons in a new reality. Despite the widespread exacerbation of spine diseases, they were pushed to the background. Many neurosurgical departments have been converted into COVID-19 isolation departments. We present a brief report on the actual state of the work of neurosurgeons and that a year after the pandemic began, the work of neurosurgical departments is still disrupted and the prospect of performing non-urgent neurosurgical procedures is uncertain.