Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on the utilization of acute surgical care in the State of Salzburg, Austria: retrospective, multicenter analysis.
Appendectomy
Colorectal surgery
Emergency
Pandemic
SARS-CoV‑2
Journal
European surgery : ACA : Acta chirurgica Austriaca
ISSN: 1682-8631
Titre abrégé: Eur Surg
Pays: Austria
ID NLM: 101140655
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
28
01
2021
accepted:
30
01
2021
pubmed:
10
3
2021
medline:
10
3
2021
entrez:
9
3
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Some medical disciplines have reported a strong decrease of emergencies during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic; however, the effect of the lockdown on general surgery emergencies remains unclear. This study is a retrospective, multicenter analysis of general surgery emergency operations performed during the period from 1 March to 15th 2020 lockdown and in the same time period of 2019 in three medical centers providing emergency surgical care to the area Salzburg-North, Austria. In total 165 emergency surgeries were performed in the study period of 2020 compared to 287 in 2019. This is a significant decrease of 122 (42.5%) emergency surgeries during the COVID-19 lockdown ( Emergency general surgery is an essential service that continues to run under all circumstances. Our data show that COVID-19-related restrictions have resulted in a significant decrease in the utilization of acute surgical care.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Some medical disciplines have reported a strong decrease of emergencies during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic; however, the effect of the lockdown on general surgery emergencies remains unclear.
METHODS
METHODS
This study is a retrospective, multicenter analysis of general surgery emergency operations performed during the period from 1 March to 15th 2020 lockdown and in the same time period of 2019 in three medical centers providing emergency surgical care to the area Salzburg-North, Austria.
RESULTS
RESULTS
In total 165 emergency surgeries were performed in the study period of 2020 compared to 287 in 2019. This is a significant decrease of 122 (42.5%) emergency surgeries during the COVID-19 lockdown (
CONCLUSIONS
CONCLUSIONS
Emergency general surgery is an essential service that continues to run under all circumstances. Our data show that COVID-19-related restrictions have resulted in a significant decrease in the utilization of acute surgical care.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33686347
doi: 10.1007/s10353-021-00692-1
pii: 692
pmc: PMC7930888
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
48-54Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2021.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Conflict of interestJ. Presl, M. Varga, C. Mittermair, S. Mitterwallner, M. Weitzendorfer, A. Gabersek, K. Borhanian, A. Heuberger, H. Weiss, K. Emmanuel, B. von Rahden and O.O. Koch declare that they have no competing interests.