Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency and elective hip surgeries in Norway
| Autor: | Mari Grøsland, Kjetil Telle, Karin Magnusson, Jon Helgeland |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Emergency Medical Services 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Civil defense Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Osteoarthritis Hip 03 medical and health sciences Sex Factors 0302 clinical medicine Sex factors Pandemic Emergency medical services Humans Medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Registries 030212 general & internal medicine Aged Orthopedic surgery 030222 orthopedics Hip Fractures Norway SARS-CoV-2 business.industry Incidence Age Factors COVID-19 Civil Defense General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Hospitalization Elective Surgical Procedures Communicable Disease Control Female Surgery Medical emergency business Elective Surgical Procedure RD701-811 Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Acta Orthopaedica article-version (VoR) Version of Record Acta Orthopaedica, Vol 92, Iss 4, Pp 376-380 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 1745-3682 1745-3674 |
| Popis: | Background and purpose — Many countries implemented strict lockdown policies to control the COVID-19 pandemic during March 2020. The impacts of lockdown policies on joint surgeries are unknown. Therefore, we assessed the effects of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown restrictions on the number of emergency and elective hip joint surgeries, and explored whether these procedures are more/less affected by lockdown restrictions than other hospital care. Patients and methods — In 1,344,355 persons aged ≥ 35 years in the Norwegian emergency preparedness (BEREDT C19) register, we studied the daily number of persons having (1) emergency surgeries due to hip fractures, and (2) electively planned surgeries due to hip osteoarthritis before and after COVID-19 lockdown restrictions were implemented nationally on March 13, 2020, for different age and sex groups. Incidence rate ratios (IRR) reflect the after-lockdown number of surgeries divided by the before-lockdown number of surgeries. Results — After-lockdown elective hip surgeries comprised one-third the number of before-lockdown (IRR ∼0.3), which is a greater drop than that seen in all-cause elective hospital care (IRR ∼0.6). Men aged 35–69 had half the number of emergency hip fracture surgeries (IRR ∼0.6), whereas women aged ≥ 70 had the same number of emergency hip fracture surgeries after lockdown (IRR ∼1). Only women aged 35–69 and men aged ≥ 70 had emergency hip fracture surgery rates after lockdown comparable to what may be expected based on analyses of all-cause acute care (IRR ∼0.80) Interpretation — It is important to note for future pandemics management that lockdown restrictions may impact more on scheduled joint surgery than other scheduled hospital care. Lockdown may also impact the number of emergency joint surgeries for men aged ≥ 35 but not those for women aged ≥ 70. |
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