Open AccessEffect of Coronavirus Disease-19 Pandemic to the Volume of Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Surgical Service: Experience from a Single Tertiary Orthopedic Hospital in Indonesia
Author(s) -
Asep Santoso,
Gilang Persada,
Iwan Budiwan Anwar,
Tangkas Sibarani,
Ismail Mariyanto,
Pamudji Utomo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
open access macedonian journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.288
H-Index - 17
ISSN - 1857-9655
DOI - 10.3889/oamjms.2020.5652
Subject(s) - medicine , orthopedic surgery , pandemic , arthroplasty , total knee arthroplasty , covid-19 , retrospective cohort study , total hip arthroplasty , surgery , general surgery , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The difficult situation of the coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 pandemic may affect to hip and knee arthroplasty service. Retrospective study was performed to patients who received elective total hip/total knee arthroplasty (THA/TKA) from January to September 2020 at Prof. Dr. R. Soeharso Orthopaedic Hospital, Surakarta, Indonesia. There were a total of 64 THA and 227 TKA from January to September of 2020. There was an extreme decrease in the number of TKA surgery during April, May, and June in 2020. The effect of coronavirus disease-19 pandemic to the decrease of arthroplasty service was mainly in the first 3 months period.