RESUMO
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the 5-year experience of surgical care in a multi-field hospital during the coronavirus pandemic and before infection. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We assessed «non-traumatic¼ surgery and the main indicators in a multi-field hospital during the coronavirus pandemic and surgical work in the «pre-COVID¼ period. RESULTS: The number of discharged patients was the same between 2018 and 2021. In 2020-2021, mortality increased by 2.8 times, the number of deceased patients - by 2.5 times, hospitalizations for emergency surgical indications - by 2.1 times. Elective care decreased by 2.5 times. The number of adverse vascular events increased by 3 times. CONCLUSION: Acute increase in emergency surgery and decrease in elective care create the prerequisites for growth of «neglect¼ with subsequent postoperative complications. We observed significant increase in mortality. It is advisable to create a backup emergency surgical service in infectious disease hospitals to provide care in obviously infected patients.