Deployment of Neurosurgeons at the Warfront Against Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19)

BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has taken the world by storm, especially the health care system. Medical practitioners of all specialties are being assigned to treat patients of COVID-19. In this article, two authors (T.V. and N.G.) from the Department of Neurosurgery wh...

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Autores principales: Venkataram, Tejas, Goyal, Nishant, Kalita, Deepjyoti, Bahurupi, Yogesh, Gangotri, Sadhasivam, Saravanan, Sharma, Suresh K.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7832458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32916352
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2020.09.009
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author Venkataram, Tejas
Goyal, Nishant
Kalita, Deepjyoti
Bahurupi, Yogesh
Gangotri
Sadhasivam, Saravanan
Sharma, Suresh K.
author_facet Venkataram, Tejas
Goyal, Nishant
Kalita, Deepjyoti
Bahurupi, Yogesh
Gangotri
Sadhasivam, Saravanan
Sharma, Suresh K.
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description BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has taken the world by storm, especially the health care system. Medical practitioners of all specialties are being assigned to treat patients of COVID-19. In this article, two authors (T.V. and N.G.) from the Department of Neurosurgery who were deployed in the COVID-19 testing ward between April 25 and May 31, 2020 share their experience. METHODS: A prospective observational study was conducted including all those who were admitted in this ward. The patients were studied according to their demographic profiles, diagnoses, admitting departments, travel history, and presence/absence of COVID-19–related symptoms. Relevant history regarding occupation, contact with patient with known COVID-19, and comorbid illness was noted. Those who tested positive for COVID-19 were studied further. The data from the institute’s official record were updated until August 14, 2020. RESULTS: During the study period, there were 256 admissions in the ward, of whom 148 (92 male, 56 female) were patients and 108 were patients’ attendants/relatives. Most patients were admitted under the departments of internal medicine (33, 22.3%) and general surgery (19, 12.8%). Of 148 patients, 46 (31.1%) were admitted as they were planned for a surgery/intervention. Among 148 patients, 29 (19.6%) had history of travel to or were residents of a red zone, 4 (2.7%) had history of contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19, whereas 6 (4.1%) were health care workers. One hundred four patients (70.2%) showed no COVID-19–related symptoms. Thirty-four patients (22.9%) had associated comorbid conditions. Eight patients (5 male, 3 female) with mean age of 37.6 years (range 4–69 years) tested positive for COVID-19. CONCLUSIONS: The authors share their experience and their institute’s protocol in various facets during this war against COVID-19 pandemic. Preadmission and presurgical testing of patients is important in preventing the spread of the disease amongst health care workers.
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spelling pubmed-78324582021-01-26 Deployment of Neurosurgeons at the Warfront Against Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) Venkataram, Tejas Goyal, Nishant Kalita, Deepjyoti Bahurupi, Yogesh Gangotri Sadhasivam, Saravanan Sharma, Suresh K. World Neurosurg Original Article BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has taken the world by storm, especially the health care system. Medical practitioners of all specialties are being assigned to treat patients of COVID-19. In this article, two authors (T.V. and N.G.) from the Department of Neurosurgery who were deployed in the COVID-19 testing ward between April 25 and May 31, 2020 share their experience. METHODS: A prospective observational study was conducted including all those who were admitted in this ward. The patients were studied according to their demographic profiles, diagnoses, admitting departments, travel history, and presence/absence of COVID-19–related symptoms. Relevant history regarding occupation, contact with patient with known COVID-19, and comorbid illness was noted. Those who tested positive for COVID-19 were studied further. The data from the institute’s official record were updated until August 14, 2020. RESULTS: During the study period, there were 256 admissions in the ward, of whom 148 (92 male, 56 female) were patients and 108 were patients’ attendants/relatives. Most patients were admitted under the departments of internal medicine (33, 22.3%) and general surgery (19, 12.8%). Of 148 patients, 46 (31.1%) were admitted as they were planned for a surgery/intervention. Among 148 patients, 29 (19.6%) had history of travel to or were residents of a red zone, 4 (2.7%) had history of contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19, whereas 6 (4.1%) were health care workers. One hundred four patients (70.2%) showed no COVID-19–related symptoms. Thirty-four patients (22.9%) had associated comorbid conditions. Eight patients (5 male, 3 female) with mean age of 37.6 years (range 4–69 years) tested positive for COVID-19. CONCLUSIONS: The authors share their experience and their institute’s protocol in various facets during this war against COVID-19 pandemic. Preadmission and presurgical testing of patients is important in preventing the spread of the disease amongst health care workers. Elsevier Inc. 2020-12 2020-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7832458/ /pubmed/32916352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2020.09.009 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Sadhasivam, Saravanan
Sharma, Suresh K.
Deployment of Neurosurgeons at the Warfront Against Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7832458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32916352
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2020.09.009
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