SARS-CoV-2 outbreak impact on a trauma unit
| Autor: | Sarah Mills, Aitor Ibarzabal-Gil, Jose M. Martinez-Diez, Itsaso Losantos-Garcia, Carlos Kalbakdij-Sánchez, Juan Carlos Rubio-Suárez, Javier Pallares-Sanmartin, E. Carlos Rodríguez-Merchán |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) business.industry Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Outbreak COVID-19 pandemic Case Control Study medicine.disease Demographic data Polytrauma SARS-CoV-2 outbreak Polytraumatic patients Cohort Positive test result Pandemic Emergency medicine Hip fractures medicine Morbimortality Orthopedics and Sports Medicine business Trauma department |
| Zdroj: | World Journal of Orthopedics |
| ISSN: | 2218-5836 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND From February 2020 onwards, our country has been hit by the coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. At a glance, hospitals became overrun and had to reformulate all the assistance guidelines, focusing on the coronavirus disease 2019. One year after the start of the pandemic, we present the results of a morbimortality study. AIM To analyze how our department was affected by the outbreak in terms of morbimortality, and to analyze demographic data, admission to hospital-related data, and subgroups analyses for patients with hip fractures and polytrauma. METHODS We designed a study comparing data from patients who were admitted to our unit due to a lower limb fracture or a high energy trauma during the pandemic (from March to April 2020) to those admitted during the same period in 2019 before the pandemic. during the pandemic situation. Both cohorts completed a minimum of 6 mo of follow-up. RESULTS The number of patients admitted to hospital in 2020 was nearly half of those in 2019. Hip fractures in the elderly represented 52 out of 73 of the admitted patients. Twenty patients had a positive test result for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection were admitted to the hospital for a longer time than the non-infected (P < 0.001), and had a higher mortality rate during hospitalization and follow-up (P = 0.02). Patients with a hip fracture associated with a severe respiratory syndrome were mostly selected for conservative treatment (P = 0.03). CONCLUSION Mortality and readmission rates were higher in the 2020 cohort and during follow-up, in comparison with the cohort in 2019. |
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