Delivery of Protocolised Emergency Surgical Care During COVID-19 Pandemic

Khoo Teck Puat Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: COVID-19; Emergency Surgery

Treatments: Procedure: Emergency surgery

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04450277

2020/00660

Details and patient eligibility

About

Emergency general surgical care during the COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique set of considerations and challenges. Patients presenting with acute surgical conditions and concomitant COVID-19 infection have higher risk of mortality and morbidity. The investigators present their experience with COVID-19 positive patients presenting with acute surgical conditions and reviewed the implementation of a protocolized pathway to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 infection.

Full description

All COVID-19 positive patients who presented to the acute general surgical service over a 2-month period were identified. Patient data including demographics, surgical diagnosis, mortality, morbidity and hospital length of stay was collected. Based on the investigators' early experience from the first patient, the investigators designed a protocolized institutional pathway which incorporated the risk of COVID-19 infection and urgency of operation.

Enrollment: 15 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients with emergency surgical conditions and tested positive for COVID-19 infection

Exclusion criteria

• Nil