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COVID-19 Pandemic and General Surgery Emergencies

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Gulhane Training and Research Hospital

Status

Completed

Conditions

Emergencies

Treatments

Other: Emergency general surgical admissions

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04686708
Gulhane2020-258

Details and patient eligibility

About

A retrospective analysis of emergency general surgical admissions during the first six months of the pandemic (from March 11 to September 11, 2020) and the same period in 2019, will be conducted.

Full description

The volume and disease severity of emergency general surgery admissions between the first six-month period of the pandemic and the similar time period in the prepandemic period in 2019 will be compared.

Patients admitted during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, from March 11 to September 11, 2020, will be included. As a comparison group, similar data will be collected on patients admitted to the general surgery department during the same period in 2019. Patient and disease characteristics, including demographics, initial leukocyte and C-reactive protein levels, diagnosis, treatment strategies, complications, duration of hospital stay, 30-day rehospitalization rate, and 30-day reoperation rate will be reviewed. Complications will be classified according to Clavien-Dindo classification. Tokyo Guidelines 2018/2013 will be used to assess the severity of the acute cholecystitis.

After the patients are divided into two groups: (1) prepandemic period and (2) pandemic period, descriptive statistics will be presented as the medians and ranges, and frequencies (%). Associations between variables will be evaluated using the Mann-Whitney U test (for continuous variables) or Pearson's chi-square and Fisher exact tests (for categorical variables), where appropriate.

Enrollment

750 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients aged 18 years and older
  • Patients admitted during the first six months of the pandemic, from March 11 to September 11, 2020, and patients admitted during the same period in 2019

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients younger than 18 years
  • Patients positive for COVID-19
  • Patients required elective surgery
  • Patients re-operated because of a postoperative complication of an elective surgical procedure

Trial design

750 participants in 2 patient groups

Pre-pandemic period
Description:
Patients managed in the pre-pandemic period
Treatment:
Other: Emergency general surgical admissions
Pandemic period
Description:
Patients managed in the pandemic period
Treatment:
Other: Emergency general surgical admissions

Trial contacts and locations

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