Emergency Orthopaedic surgery in the pandemic era: A case series at a national tertiary hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia.

payth.elady61 shared this article with you from Inoreader Emergency Orthopaedic surgery in the pandemic era: A case series at a national tertiary hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia. Via pubmed: "int j surg case rep... Emergency Orthopaedic surgery in the pandemic era: A case series at a national tertiary hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia. Int J Surg Case Rep. 2020 Dec 02;: Authors: Kamal AF, Widodo W, Kuncor MW, Karda IWAM, Prabowo Y, Habib H, Liastuti LD, Trimartani, Hutagalung EU, Saleh I, Tobing SDAL, Gunawan B, Dilogo IH, Lubis AM, Kurniawan A, Rahyussalim AJ, Oesman I, Ifran NN, Latief W, Wijaya MT, Ivansyah MD, Primaputra MRA, Reksoprodjo AY, Hendriarto A, Novriandi KMA, Alaztha Z, Canintika AF, Sitanggang AHR Abstract Introduction: Every emergency surgery performed is aimed at saving lives; however, during COVID-19 pandemic, surgeries are often postponed. Many existing recommendations take into account postponing surgery during a pandemic. How these surgeries can lead to increasing infection rates has not been widely published. This study aims to investigate the relationship of emergency orthopaedic surgery and the incidence rate of COVID-19. Presentation of case: : This was a case series of 14 patients. The study was performed at the emergency department unit at a national tertiary hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia. A total of 14 patients underwent orthopaedic surgery in the emergency room of our institution. The mean age of the subjects was 40.07 ± 20.5 years. Twelve (85.7%) were male patients and 2 (14.3%) were female patients. The average duration of surgery was 125 minutes. The most used type of anaesthesia was general anaesthesia for 6 operations (50%). Patients were hospitalized for an average length of 4 days. Three patients had infiltrates found on plain x-ray examination, which required further examination to determine whether the cause was COVID-19 infection or not. There was no ground glass appearance (GGO) in the three patients in further follow-up examination. Conclusions: We found that emergency orthopaedic surgery was not associated with increasing number of COVID-19 cases. Factors including duration of surgery, length of stay, types of anaesthesia and comorbidities were also not associated with COVID-19 cases in this study. PMID: 33288992 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.