Resultado de la implantación de consultas telemáticas en cirugía ortopédica y traumatología durante la pandemia COVID-19 / Result of the implementation of telematic consultations in orthopaedic surgery and traumatology during COVID-19 laparoscopic surgery

La pandemia COVID ha hecho de las consultas telemáticas una herramienta básica en la práctica diaria. El objetivo principal del estudio es valorar los resultados de la aplicación de consultas telemáticas para limitar la movilidad de los pacientes. Son objetivos operativos: proponer un plan de consultas, conocer cómo limita la asistencia a las consultas, definir qué patologías se benefician más con este plan. MATERIAL Y MÉTODOS: Se propone un esquema con la creación de consultas previas a las agendadas para valorar idoneidad y posibilidad de realizarla en acto único no presencial. RESULTADOS: Se han realizado 5.619 consultas con una falta de respuesta telefónica del 19%. El 74% de los pacientes fueron resueltos de forma virtual. Existe diferencia entre unidades, siendo más probable la respuesta telefónica para las consultas de unidad, OR = 0,60 o de traumatología general, OR = 0,67 y menos para los derivados desde urgencias. El 20% de las consultas no se acompañaban de pruebas complementarias. Las consultas de traumatología general, OR = 0,34, control postoperatorio, OR = 0,49, y unidades, OR = 0,40, cumplieron mejor este requisito. De los pacientes restantes, las consultas de traumatología general, OR = 0,50, y las derivadas a unidades, OR = 0,54 fueron las que más se resolvieron sin acudir presencialmente. CONCLUSIONES: Se han resuelto de forma no presencial el 74% de los pacientes que atendieron a la llamada telefónica. El 20% de los pacientes acuden a la visita sin pruebas complementarias. Las consultas de seguimiento de osteosíntesis y postoperatorio de cirugía artroscópica son las que más precisan de ser realizadas de forma presencial

The COVID pandemic has made telematic consultations a basic tool in daily practice. AIMS: The main objective of the study is to assess the results of the application of telematic consultations to limit the mobility of patients. The operational objectives are; to propose a consultation plan, to know how attendance limits consultations and to define which pathologies benefit the most from this plan. METHODS: A scheme is proposed with the creation of pre-scheduled clinic to assess suitability and the possibility of carrying them out in a single non face-to-face act. RESULTS: Phone call to 5,619 patients were made with a lack of response of 19%. The cases of 74% of the patients that answered were resolved virtually. There is a difference between units, obtaining a higher answering rate from patients appointed to specific clinic units, OR = 0.60, or to general trauma ones, OR = 0.67. The lowest answering rate was obtained from those derived from the emergency department. Twenty per cent of the consultations were not accompanied by complementary tests that would have favored the resolution in a single act. The general trauma consultations, OR = 0.34, postoperative control, OR = 0.49, and specific unit ones, OR = 0.40, were the ones that better met this requirement. Out of the remaining patients, the general trauma consultations, OR = 0.50, and those referred to units, OR = 0.54, were the ones that had a higher resolution rate without in- person consultation. CONCLUSIONS: The cases of 74% of the patients who answered the phone call were resolved virtually. Cases of 20% of the patients cannot be solved in a single act because they are derived without complementary tests. Osteosynthesis and postoperative arthroscopic follow-up consultations are the ones that need to be carried out in person the most

Result of the implementation of telematic consultations in orthopaedic surgery and traumatology during COVID-19 laparoscopic surgery. / Resultado de la implantación de consultas telemáticas en cirugía ortopédica y traumatología durante la pandemia COVID-19.

The COVID pandemic has made telematic consultations a basic tool in daily practice. AIMS: The main objective of the study is to assess the results of the application of telematic consultations to limit the mobility of patients. The operational objectives are; to propose a consultation plan, to know how attendance limits consultations and to define which pathologies benefit the most from this plan. METHODS: A scheme is proposed with the creation of pre-scheduled clinic to assess suitability and the possibility of carrying them out in a single non face-to-face act. RESULTS: Phone call to 5,619 patients were made with a lack of response of 19%. The cases of 74% of the patients that answered were resolved virtually. There is a difference between units, obtaining a higher answering rate from patients appointed to specific clinic units, OR = 0.60, or to general trauma ones, OR = 0.67. The lowest answering rate was obtained from those derived from the emergency department. Twenty per cent of the consultations were not accompanied by complementary tests that would have favored the resolution in a single act. The general trauma consultations, OR = 0.34, postoperative control, OR = 0.49, and specific unit ones, OR = 0.40, were the ones that better met this requirement. Out of the remaining patients, the general trauma consultations, OR = 0.50, and those referred to units, OR = 0.54, were the ones that had a higher resolution rate without in- person consultation. CONCLUSIONS: The cases of 74% of the patients who answered the phone call were resolved virtually. Cases of 20% of the patients cannot be solved in a single act because they are derived without complementary tests. Osteosynthesis and postoperative arthroscopic follow-up consultations are the ones that need to be carried out in person the most.

Estudio de supervivencia en tumores en estadio T3 / Study of survival in stage T3 tumors

OBJETIVOS: Analizar la supervivencia de los subgrupos de tumores englobados bajo la estadificación T3 (invasores de pared, de mediastino y de bronquio principal). Estudiar las causas que justifican las diferencias halladas. PACIENTES Y MÉTODO: Estudio descriptivo, longitudinal, retrospectivo. 70 pacientes operados y estadificados como T3 (N0,N1, N2) M0 entre octubre de 2001 y octubre de 2006. Análisis estadístico Kapplan Meier y regresión de Cox RESULTADOS: 70 pacientes intervenidos, y repartidos en 40(57,1%) tumores invasores de pared, 17 (24,2%) de pleura mediastínica o pericardio parietal y 13 (18,5%) de bronquio principal. La supervivencia global acumulada a los cinco años fue del 41%. El grupo de pared tuvo una supervivencia a los cinco años del 40,7%,el mediastínico del 20% y el de bronquio principal del 68,5%. No existieron diferencias significativas entre los tres subgrupos(p<11%), probablemente por el tamaño muestral, pero sí un claro indicio de distintos comportamientos .Tuvieron significación estadística como factores pronósticos de supervivencia las variables afectación ganglionar y cirugía completa/incompleta. No tuvieron significación estadística las variables tamaño tumoral y estirpe histológica. Los tumores invasores mediastínicos (los de peor pronóstico),presentaron un porcentaje de N2 y cirugías incompletas superior al resto (variables con significación estadística).CONCLUSIONES: Debemos mejorar el porcentaje de cirugías completas en tumores T3 mediastínicos. Además, en este subgrupo, la exploración previa del mediastino debe ser considerada especialmente. Tumores en estadío T3N0 y T3N1 no han presentado diferencias significativas de supervivencia. Estudios posteriores deberían confirmar si deben continuar estatificándose en grupos distintos (IIB y IIIA)

OBJECTIVES: To study health-related quality of life (HRQL)of patients receiving home mechanical ventilation (HMV) for different causes using a new specific questionnaire (SRI).METHODS: Observational transversal multicentre trial in which 5 hospitals participated. Patients enrolled were scheduled for one only visit, where sociodemographic and clinical data were recorded, and the SRI questionnaire was administered. Comparison of the SRI results between diagnostic groups was performed. RESULTS: One hundred and fifteen patients (33 thoracic cage, 37 obesity hypoventilation syndromes, 18 neuromuscular, 12 tuberculosis sequelae, and 15 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) were included. Global HRQL evaluation was similar for all disease groups. However, patients with an obstructive component in the pulmonary function tests resulted to have a different punctuation in several scales of the questionnaire. Neuromuscular patients had a worse punctuation on PF scale (26 ± 29 vs. 46 ± 25; p = 0.006) and required HMV during more hours of the day than the other diagnostic categories (10.8 ± 5 hours vs.8.2 ± 2.5 hours; p = 0.046). CONCLUSIONS: Although SRI is similarly impaired inpatients receiving HMV, the differences found between the diagnostic groups set different profiles for patients with obstructive, restrictive o neuromuscular diseases (AU)

[Primary tumors of the thoracic wall (1991-1994)]. / Tumores primitivos de pared torácica (1991-1994).

Between 1991 and 1994, 582 operations were performed in our service; 19 (3.26%) were on primitive tumors of the chest wall. We analyze the data for these patients, including age, sex, clinical findings, chest images, diagnoses, therapy and course. Ten tumors were benign and 9 were malignant. The most frequent clinical findings were pain and/or tumor. Diagnosis was achieved before surgery in only 2 cases. Except when there are clear macroscopic and X-ray signs that the tumor is benign, we performed broad exeresis of the chest wall, sometimes also resecting adjacent structures. The defect was repaired directly in 12 cases. The defects were covered by prostheses and/or muscle plasty in the remaining patients. The most frequent tumor was chondrosarcoma (3 cases), followed by 2 cases of osteoblastoma and osteochondroma. Only 1 each of the following tumors were found: plasmocytoma, chondroma, fibrous dysplasia, eosinophilic granuloma, osteosarcoma, Ewing's tumor, epithelioid sarcoma, fibrosarcoma, hemangioma, benign neurilemmoma, desmoid tumor and liposarcoma. Two patients with chondrosarcoma were operated on for recurrences and there was also recurrence in the patient with Ewing's tumor. We conclude that: 1) chest wall tumors are infrequent, 2) radical exeresis is the treatment of choice and prosthesis is often necessary, and 3) chondrosarcoma, with poor outcome in our patients, is the most frequent tumor.