Otolaryngology Surgical Activity in Tertiary Care Center During the Covid-19 Lockdown.
Aerosol generating procedure
COVID 19
Tracheostomy
Triage
Journal
Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India
ISSN: 2231-3796
Titre abrégé: Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
Pays: India
ID NLM: 9422551
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2022
Oct 2022
Historique:
received:
27
07
2020
accepted:
14
09
2020
pubmed:
7
10
2020
medline:
7
10
2020
entrez:
6
10
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Corona virus disease (COVID 19) is an infectious respiratory disease caused by the novel virus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). With many countries implementing lockdown the surgical activities in the division of otolaryngology across the world has been affected with many hospital confining themselves to only emergency or essential surgeries. The aim of this work is to report and discuss the in the surgical activity of the otolaryngology unit of the St John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore (India) during the pandemic. We performed acute and subacute emergencies which include diagnosis and treatment of malignant tumors of the head and neck, management of airway emergencies in adults and children, drainage of abscesses of the head and neck, Foreign body removal, emergency nasal debridement and surgeries for the unsafe ear. With the pandemic the surgical activities in otolaryngology changed drastically and with strict protocol and triaging put in place the risk for Health care workers was avoided and services to patients delivered.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33020733
doi: 10.1007/s12070-020-02155-7
pii: 2155
pmc: PMC7528446
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
2758-2763Informations de copyright
© Association of Otolaryngologists of India 2020.
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