IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON SPINE SURGERIES IN A HIGH COMPLEXITY EMERGENCY HOSPITAL
| Autor: | MATEUS BERGAMO LOMAZ, MURILO RIBEIRO SANCHES, JULIANE LEITE ORCINO, GUILHERME DE MATOS ABE, MATHEUS PEREIRA SANTANA, MURILO TAVARES DAHER |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | Coluna/Columna, Vol 22, Iss 4 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2177-014X 1808-1851 |
| DOI: | 10.1590/s1808-185120222204277029 |
| Popis: | ABSTRACT Objective: To study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on spine surgeries at a Reference Center for High Complexity Urgencies in Goiás. Methods: A retrospective, observational study was carried out based on data from medical records of patients undergoing spine surgery between September 2017 and September 2021. Volunteers were divided into two groups: before and during the pandemic, considering April 2020 as a starting point. The following was extracted from the medical records: age, gender, education, etiology, neurological deficit, region of the spine addressed, mechanism of trauma, fractured vertebrae, type of fracture, length of stay in the ICU, COVID test (PCR), and deaths. Student t, chi-square, and Fisher’s exact statistical tests were used to compare the preand post-pandemic profiles. In addition, Spearman’s correlation test was applied to verify the correlation between variables, considering p |
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