Mills S, Ibarzábal-Gil A, Martínez-Diez JM, Pallarés-Sanmartín J, Kalbakdij-Sánchez C, Rubio-Suárez JC, Losantos-García I, Rodríguez-Merchán EC. SARS-CoV-2 outbreak impact on a trauma unit.
World J Orthop 2021;
12:751-759. [PMID:
34754831 PMCID:
PMC8554347 DOI:
10.5312/wjo.v12.i10.751]
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
From February 2020 onwards, our country has been hit by the coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. At a glance, hospitals became overrun and had to reformulate all the assistance guidelines, focusing on the coronavirus disease 2019. One year after the start of the pandemic, we present the results of a morbimortality study.
AIM
To analyze how our department was affected by the outbreak in terms of morbimortality, and to analyze demographic data, admission to hospital-related data, and subgroups analyses for patients with hip fractures and polytrauma.
METHODS
We designed a study comparing data from patients who were admitted to our unit due to a lower limb fracture or a high energy trauma during the pandemic (from March to April 2020) to those admitted during the same period in 2019 before the pandemic. during the pandemic situation. Both cohorts completed a minimum of 6 mo of follow-up.
RESULTS
The number of patients admitted to hospital in 2020 was nearly half of those in 2019. Hip fractures in the elderly represented 52 out of 73 of the admitted patients. Twenty patients had a positive test result for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection were admitted to the hospital for a longer time than the non-infected (P < 0.001), and had a higher mortality rate during hospitalization and follow-up (P = 0.02). Patients with a hip fracture associated with a severe respiratory syndrome were mostly selected for conservative treatment (P = 0.03).
CONCLUSION
Mortality and readmission rates were higher in the 2020 cohort and during follow-up, in comparison with the cohort in 2019.
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