Resumen :
Introducción y objetivos: Durante la pandemia causada por SARS -CoVCoV-2 en nuestro
centro y a nivel nacional, se ha producido un descenso acusado de toda la actividad
quirúrgica programada, no prioritaria. Nuestro objetivo es analizar cómo ha afectado la pandemia a la cirugía de la eventración en ... Ver más
Introduction
and aims: During the pandemic because of SARS_CoV CoV-2 in our institution
and national level, it has been produced a dramatic decline from all the programmed
non -priority surgical activity. Our target is to analyse how the pandemic has affected the abdominal wall surgery in the Hospital General Universitario from Alicante Dr. Balmis
( And, at the same time, study the characteristics of the patients and the
interventions that have been done during this period.
Material
and methods: A retrosp ective cohort analysis was done using a data base
made up in a prospective way, EVE REG, and all the patients operated on incisional
hernia in the HGUAB were registered and assigned in two groups. One for the patients
operated in between March 2019 and MarcMarch 2020 (before COVID) and the other for
interventions in between March 2020 and March 2021 (COVID period). Preoperative,
specific incisional hernia properties and the intervention and postpost-surgery characteristics
were considered. Once the descriptive study was completed, the comparations were
done using the Student’s T-Test and the 𝜒2 method.
Results:
A total of 289 patients were included on the study, 103 ( operated during
the COVID period. The population average age was 62,10 ± 13,68 years, and abo ut sex, 48,4% were men and 51,6% women. The frequency of urgent surgeries increases
considerably on the COVID group ( vs 8,1% p<0,001). The percentage of patients
urgency -intervened, with ASA III and IV is much greater than the percentage of the ones electiveelective-intervened ( vs 19,1% p=0,001). Also, it has been noticed a longer stay
period in these patients (6,19 ± 6,81 vs 3,55 ± 3,96 p<0,001) and there are shown more
post operatory complications on the urgency interventions ( vs 9,3% p=0,001)
Conclusions: During March 2020 and March 2021, the number of incisional hernia
programmed operations decreased significantly with respect to the previous year,
increasing the urgency surgeries. These interventions imply more complications and the
increase of the hospital stay periodperiod. So, scheduledscheduled, non – priority pathology should no t be delayed indefinitely.
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