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Impact of COVID-19 on Surgical Volume: Single-Center Experience from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused substantial disruptions to surgical-care delivery mainly due to diversion of available resources from surgical to COVID-19 care, reduced flow of patients, supply-chain interruptions and social distancing and restriction measures. The purpose of this study...
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Research and Publications Office of Jimma University
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8864390/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35250215 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ejhs.v32i1.5 |
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author | Ademe, Yonas Genetu, Abraham Laeke, Tsegazeab Taye, Mulat Bekele, Abebe |
author_facet | Ademe, Yonas Genetu, Abraham Laeke, Tsegazeab Taye, Mulat Bekele, Abebe |
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description | BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused substantial disruptions to surgical-care delivery mainly due to diversion of available resources from surgical to COVID-19 care, reduced flow of patients, supply-chain interruptions and social distancing and restriction measures. The purpose of this study was to understand the impact of the pandemic on surgical volume in our hospital. METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional study was done at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital. A 2- year data was collected from March 2019 up to March 2021 from the operation theatre registration books. The data registry at the admission records office was also reviewed to extract the number pf patients on the elective surgery waiting list. Data were recorded, analyzed and reported using SPSS software package 26. RESULTS: The findings showed that there was a significant drop in surgical volume during the COVID-19 era. Surgical volume has dropped by 19% for emergency and by 32% for elective surgeries. COVID-19 test positivity of patients was identified as the single most important reason for elective operation cancellation during the first wave of the pandemic, contributing to as high as 85% of the reasons. CONCLUSION: The outcome of our study showed that COVID-19 has adversely affected elective and emergency surgical volume in our institution. This has also led to a dramatic increase in the surgical waiting list load. We recommend immediate surgical systems strengthening measures to re-build the surgical care ecosystem significantly affected by COVID-19. Surgical and anesthesia systems strengthening should be an integral part of pandemic preparedness and management. |
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spelling | pubmed-88643902022-03-03 Impact of COVID-19 on Surgical Volume: Single-Center Experience from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Ademe, Yonas Genetu, Abraham Laeke, Tsegazeab Taye, Mulat Bekele, Abebe Ethiop J Health Sci Original Article BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused substantial disruptions to surgical-care delivery mainly due to diversion of available resources from surgical to COVID-19 care, reduced flow of patients, supply-chain interruptions and social distancing and restriction measures. The purpose of this study was to understand the impact of the pandemic on surgical volume in our hospital. METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional study was done at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital. A 2- year data was collected from March 2019 up to March 2021 from the operation theatre registration books. The data registry at the admission records office was also reviewed to extract the number pf patients on the elective surgery waiting list. Data were recorded, analyzed and reported using SPSS software package 26. RESULTS: The findings showed that there was a significant drop in surgical volume during the COVID-19 era. Surgical volume has dropped by 19% for emergency and by 32% for elective surgeries. COVID-19 test positivity of patients was identified as the single most important reason for elective operation cancellation during the first wave of the pandemic, contributing to as high as 85% of the reasons. CONCLUSION: The outcome of our study showed that COVID-19 has adversely affected elective and emergency surgical volume in our institution. This has also led to a dramatic increase in the surgical waiting list load. We recommend immediate surgical systems strengthening measures to re-build the surgical care ecosystem significantly affected by COVID-19. Surgical and anesthesia systems strengthening should be an integral part of pandemic preparedness and management. Research and Publications Office of Jimma University 2022-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8864390/ /pubmed/35250215 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ejhs.v32i1.5 Text en © 2021 Yonas Ademe, et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Ademe, Yonas Genetu, Abraham Laeke, Tsegazeab Taye, Mulat Bekele, Abebe Impact of COVID-19 on Surgical Volume: Single-Center Experience from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
title | Impact of COVID-19 on Surgical Volume: Single-Center Experience from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
title_full | Impact of COVID-19 on Surgical Volume: Single-Center Experience from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
title_fullStr | Impact of COVID-19 on Surgical Volume: Single-Center Experience from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of COVID-19 on Surgical Volume: Single-Center Experience from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
title_short | Impact of COVID-19 on Surgical Volume: Single-Center Experience from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
title_sort | impact of covid-19 on surgical volume: single-center experience from addis ababa, ethiopia |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8864390/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35250215 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ejhs.v32i1.5 |
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