Investigating the real impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the daily neurosurgical practice?
Neurochirurgie
; 67(2): 99-103, 2021 Apr.
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in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-33493541
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
The objective of this study was to relate the neurosurgical activity during a time of sanitary crisis such as experienced during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.METHODS:
A monocentric retrospective analysis was made based on a prospectively gathered cohort of all patients requiring neurosurgical care between March 15th and May 12th, 2020. Local impact of SARS-CoV-2 was analysed regarding number of patients admitted in ICU.RESULTS:
One hundred and sixty patients could benefit from neurosurgical care with a wide-ranging profile of clinical and surgical activities performed during the study that seemed similar to last year profile activity. Surgical indications were restricted to non-deferrable surgeries, leading to a drop in operative volume of 50%. Only 1.3% of patients required transfer to other units due to the impossibility of providing gold standard neurosurgical care in our centre.CONCLUSION:
Despite the challenges represented by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, it was proven possible to ensure the routine neurosurgical continuity and provide high standards of neurosurgical care without compromising patients' access to the required treatments.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pandemics
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COVID-19
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Neurosurgery
Type of study:
Guideline
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Observational_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Neurochirurgie
Year:
2021
Document type:
Article