Emergency and Urgent Orthopaedic Surgeries in non-covid patients during the COVID 19 pandemic: Perspective from India

OBJECTIVES: To Evaluate the results and the protocols of our Institution for 18 Emergency and Urgent Non Covid Surgeries during the Covid 19 Pandemic METHODS: 18 patients underwent Emergency and Urgent Orthopaedic Surgeries at institution. The Protocol was Screening, Segregation, Selection, Isolatio...

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Autores principales: Keny, Swapnil, Bagaria, Vaibhav, Chaudhary, Kshitij, Dhawale, Arjun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7214338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32398903
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jor.2020.05.012
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Sumario:OBJECTIVES: To Evaluate the results and the protocols of our Institution for 18 Emergency and Urgent Non Covid Surgeries during the Covid 19 Pandemic METHODS: 18 patients underwent Emergency and Urgent Orthopaedic Surgeries at institution. The Protocol was Screening, Segregation, Selection, Isolation, theatre modification, and Online Follow. RESULTS: Two adverse events including, one death and one intensive care admission due to underlying morbidity were recorded. Average Hospital stay was 2.5 days with no patients becoming covid positive at follow up. CONCLUSION: Strict Surgical protocols need to be followed for surgery during the Covid19 pandemic.

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