The volume of general surgery emergency cases in a government hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic and two other periods: a comparative, retrospective study

During March and April 2020, reductions in non-COVID-19 hospital admissions were observed around the world. Elective surgeries, visits with general practitioners, and diagnoses of medical emergencies were consequently delayed. To compare the characteristics of patients admitted to a northern Israeli...

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Published in:BMC surgery 2021-03, Vol.21 (1), p.119-119, Article 119
Main Authors: Abu Shakra, Ibrahim, Bez, Maxim, Ganam, Samer, Francis, Rola, Muati, Amir, Bickel, Amitai, Merei, Fahed, Talmi, Ziv, Kamal, Khatib, Kakiashvili, Eli
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Language:English
Subjects:
Abscesses
Appendicitis
Comparative analysis
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Diabetes
Disease
Emergency medical services
Emergency medicine
Emergency Service, Hospital - statistics & numerical data
Emergency surgery
Gallbladder diseases
General surgery
General Surgery - statistics & numerical data
Health aspects
Hernias
Homeopathy
Hospitals
Hospitals, Public
Humans
Israel - epidemiology
Laboratories
Materia medica and therapeutics
Outbreaks
Pain
Pandemics
Patients
Retrospective Studies
SARS-CoV-2
Signs and symptoms
State of emergency
Surgery
Therapeutics
Viral diseases
War
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Summary:During March and April 2020, reductions in non-COVID-19 hospital admissions were observed around the world. Elective surgeries, visits with general practitioners, and diagnoses of medical emergencies were consequently delayed. To compare the characteristics of patients admitted to a northern Israeli hospital with common surgical complaints during three periods: the lockdown due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Second Lebanon War in 2006, and a regular period. Demographic, medical, laboratory, imaging, intraoperative, and pathological data were collected from electronic medical files of patients who received emergency treatment at the surgery department of a single hospital in northern Israel. We retrospectively compared the characteristics of patients who were admitted with various conditions during three periods. Patients' mean age and most of the clinical parameters assessed were similar between the periods. However, pain was reportedly higher during the COVID-19 than the control period (8.7 vs. 6.4 on a 10-point visual analog scale, P 
ISSN:1471-2482
1471-2482
DOI:10.1186/s12893-021-01131-4