The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Orthopedic Trauma Management

Bakirkoy Dr. Sadi Konuk Training and Research Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Trauma; COVID-19 Pandemic

Treatments: Other: epidemyolojical

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06237023

2021-168

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to compare emergency orthopedic trauma admissions between the pre-pandemic period and the pandemic period and to detect changes in orthopedic trauma epidemiology.

Full description

The aim of the study is to compare emergency orthopedic trauma admissions between the pre-pandemic period and the pandemic period and to detect changes in orthopedic trauma epidemiology. For this purpose, an epidemiological study was conducted in our country, comparing trauma admissions to a level 1 trauma hospital during a one-year period before the pandemic with those in the year following the onset of the pandemic.Demographic characteristics of the patients, such as age and gender, were recorded. In addition, the injury mechanisms of the patients, diagnosis, injured extremityor anatomical region, broken bone, fracture classification, multitrauma rates, trauma releated complications, hospitalization days, and treatment modalities were examined.

Enrollment: 57,635 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The patients who were admitted between March 2019 and March 2021
• Patients presenting due to trauma

Exclusion criteria

• Patients Admitted Before the Pandemic and Outside the Pandemic Period
• Consultation or Outpatient Clinic Patients
• Non-Traumatic Conditions
• Patients with Incomplete Records

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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57,635 participants in 2 patient groups

pre-pandemic group

Other group

Description:

Patients who presented to the Orthopedics and Traumatology unit for any trauma-related reason during the one-year period prior to the pandemic

Treatment:

Other: epidemyolojical

post-pandemic group

Other group

Description:

Patients who presented to the Orthopedics and Traumatology unit for any trauma-related reason within one year from the start of the pandemic

Treatment:

Other: epidemyolojical