Cargando…
Pattern of neurosurgical practice at a university hospital in KSA during COVID-19 pandemic
OBJECTIVE: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic affected both medical services as well as hospital admissions. Scholars have attempted to study the effect of the pandemic on the services of multiple specialities. In this study, we aim to examine the pandemic's impact on the neurosur...
Autores principales: | , , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Taibah University
2021
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8669889/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34924921 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtumed.2021.10.017 |
_version_ | 1784614870844440576 |
---|---|
author | Saeedi, Rothaina Bajunaid, Khalid Sabbagh, Abdulrahman J. Alomar, Soha Alyousef, Mohammed Baeesa, Saleh S. |
author_facet | Saeedi, Rothaina Bajunaid, Khalid Sabbagh, Abdulrahman J. Alomar, Soha Alyousef, Mohammed Baeesa, Saleh S. |
author_sort | Saeedi, Rothaina |
collection | PubMed |
description | OBJECTIVE: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic affected both medical services as well as hospital admissions. Scholars have attempted to study the effect of the pandemic on the services of multiple specialities. In this study, we aim to examine the pandemic's impact on the neurosurgical service provided at the King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Jeddah over an eight-month period. METHODS: In this retrospective, single-centre case series study, we included all the consecutive neurosurgical patients who underwent a surgical intervention in the 8-month period starting on 3rd March, 2020 and ending on 3rd November, 2020. The demographics, diagnosis, surgery type, priority category, and mortality data of the patients were collected. RESULTS: A total of 147 patients underwent surgery during the study period. The mean age was 30.8 years. Forty-nine percent of the study population were men. Oncology (31.3%) and hydrocephalus (23.8%) recorded the highest number of cases. More than half of the cases were Priority 1 (immediate and within 24 h). The mortality rate was 4.1% among all the performed cases. CONCLUSION: By describing this local neurosurgical experience during the COVID-19 pandemic, we hope to bring out some of the difficulties we encountered and improve what we learned during the pandemic. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-8669889 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2021 |
publisher | Taibah University |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-86698892021-12-14 Pattern of neurosurgical practice at a university hospital in KSA during COVID-19 pandemic Saeedi, Rothaina Bajunaid, Khalid Sabbagh, Abdulrahman J. Alomar, Soha Alyousef, Mohammed Baeesa, Saleh S. J Taibah Univ Med Sci Original Article OBJECTIVE: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic affected both medical services as well as hospital admissions. Scholars have attempted to study the effect of the pandemic on the services of multiple specialities. In this study, we aim to examine the pandemic's impact on the neurosurgical service provided at the King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Jeddah over an eight-month period. METHODS: In this retrospective, single-centre case series study, we included all the consecutive neurosurgical patients who underwent a surgical intervention in the 8-month period starting on 3rd March, 2020 and ending on 3rd November, 2020. The demographics, diagnosis, surgery type, priority category, and mortality data of the patients were collected. RESULTS: A total of 147 patients underwent surgery during the study period. The mean age was 30.8 years. Forty-nine percent of the study population were men. Oncology (31.3%) and hydrocephalus (23.8%) recorded the highest number of cases. More than half of the cases were Priority 1 (immediate and within 24 h). The mortality rate was 4.1% among all the performed cases. CONCLUSION: By describing this local neurosurgical experience during the COVID-19 pandemic, we hope to bring out some of the difficulties we encountered and improve what we learned during the pandemic. Taibah University 2021-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8669889/ /pubmed/34924921 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtumed.2021.10.017 Text en © 2021 [The Author/The Authors] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Original Article Saeedi, Rothaina Bajunaid, Khalid Sabbagh, Abdulrahman J. Alomar, Soha Alyousef, Mohammed Baeesa, Saleh S. Pattern of neurosurgical practice at a university hospital in KSA during COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Pattern of neurosurgical practice at a university hospital in KSA during COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Pattern of neurosurgical practice at a university hospital in KSA during COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Pattern of neurosurgical practice at a university hospital in KSA during COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Pattern of neurosurgical practice at a university hospital in KSA during COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Pattern of neurosurgical practice at a university hospital in KSA during COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | pattern of neurosurgical practice at a university hospital in ksa during covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8669889/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34924921 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtumed.2021.10.017 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT saeedirothaina patternofneurosurgicalpracticeatauniversityhospitalinksaduringcovid19pandemic AT bajunaidkhalid patternofneurosurgicalpracticeatauniversityhospitalinksaduringcovid19pandemic AT sabbaghabdulrahmanj patternofneurosurgicalpracticeatauniversityhospitalinksaduringcovid19pandemic AT alomarsoha patternofneurosurgicalpracticeatauniversityhospitalinksaduringcovid19pandemic AT alyousefmohammed patternofneurosurgicalpracticeatauniversityhospitalinksaduringcovid19pandemic AT baeesasalehs patternofneurosurgicalpracticeatauniversityhospitalinksaduringcovid19pandemic |