Open AccessImpact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the management of surgical patients presenting in an emergency setting -Report from a tertiary referral centre
Author(s) -
Deshpande Aa,
AA Das,
SB Deotale,
YP Takalkar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of postgraduate medicine/journal of postgraduate medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.405
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 0972-2823
pISSN - 0022-3859
DOI - 10.4103/jpgm.jpgm_103_21
Subject(s) - medicine , pandemic , covid-19 , retrospective cohort study , tertiary referral hospital , referral , emergency medicine , triage , presentation (obstetrics) , population , pediatrics , surgery , family medicine , disease , environmental health , infectious disease (medical specialty)
At the onset of the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, the publications on managing surgical emergencies were sparse. Health care personnel were facing an unprecedented problem with limited information. On this background, we have reviewed the operational challenges faced and the protocols followed by us while managing emergency surgical patients. The clinical presentations, RT-PCR testing rates, trend of COVID-19 positivity in emergency surgical patients and its comparison to the general population, swab positivity among screen positive and negative patients, grade of COVID-19 affection, the outcomes in emergency surgical patients, and COVID-19 affection in treating personnel is studied.