Impact of Covid-19 in the Emergency Department

Dr. Panagiota Manava

Status

Completed

Conditions

COVID-19

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05150821

IC_2021_KNN

Details and patient eligibility

About

To investigate the effects of lockdown in the Emergency Department in a tertiary health care hospital, Nuremberg, Germany.

Full description

To investigate the effect of the first lockdown caused by the pandemic of Covid-19 in a tertiary health care hospital. Klinikum Nuremberg is one of the largest tertiary health care hospitals in Germany with two locations in Nuremberg. In the north department, around 150 outcome patients visit the Emergency Department every day.

During the pandemic in 2020 the capacities of the hospitals were saved for the patients with Covid-19. A decrease of patients presented in the ED was noticed. Controlling system and patient management provided the number of cases and correlated with the same period of time one year ago, before the pandemic.

For the classification of severity of diseases, different clinical diseases with severity scores were analyzed. Following diseases and scores were evaluated:

Pancreatitis -- > ranson score; ACS (acute coronary syndrome) --> Grace-Score; Pulmonary Embolism -- > sPESI (simplified Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index); Diverticulitis --> CDD (Classification of Diverticular Disease); Pneumonia -> crb65 (Confusion- Respiratory rate- Blood pressure- age ≥ 65 years);

Enrollment

599 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Only patients who presented in the ED.

Exclusion criteria

none