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Lessons learnt from COVID 19: An Italian multicentric epidemiological study of
orthopaedic and trauma services
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Giuntoli M
; Bonicoli E
; Bugelli G
; Valesini M
; Manca M
; Scaglione M
J Clin Orthop Trauma
2020[Jul]; 11
(4
): 721-727
PMID32684717
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INTRODUCTION: The Pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 has put a strain on the most
of health systems all over the world. Many hospitals had to re-organize to deal
with the emergency, so that the non-core activities have been suspended or
cancelled, raising management problems. The aim of this multicentre study is to
report the epidemiological orthopaedic and traumatological data between COVID and
pre-COVID era and to analyse patients' needs and their management. METHODS: We
reported and compared traumatological and elective orthopaedic surgeries
performed in three of the main hospital centres in Tuscany during COVID (March
2020) and pre-COVID (March 2019) era. We also reported the epidemiological data
about the number of orthopaedic first aid visits at the main hub, analysing the
main differences. For each centre, we reported the number, diagnosis,
co-morbidities, treatment, hospital course, complications and outcomes of
confirmed COVID 19 patients. We also indicated what kind of PPE were used by
medical staff and patients at any visit. RESULTS: The scheduled surgery
drastically decreased in all the centres and the most of procedures were carried
out for tumours, infections and implant mobilizations during the COVID time,
delaying all the other ones. Trauma activities slightly decreased between the two
time points: proximal femur fractures continued to engage our hospitals at the
same pre-COVID volumes, while minor traumas drastically decreased. We report a
decrease of 70.95% in orthopaedic first aid, with
first-aid-visits/hospitalization ratio of 13.8 in the pre-COVID time vs 5.8 in
the COVID time. A total of 5 confirmed COVID patients were treated for fractures
and 4 of them healed without complications. We report just one case of death
among COVID patients. All the medical staff members have worn the PPE and no one
have developed COVID symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: The COVID-19 raised many important
issues, such as the optimal management of patients requiring the treatment of
conventional diseases during a pandemic. The flow of patients changes from one
area to another during a pandemic and an integrated approach within the same
geographical area could be useful to better allocate resources and manage the
patients' needs. The preventive measures put in place in our country seem to
work, but this first experience with COVID-19 crisis highlighted the chronic
problems of our health system and we believe that we have to "learn the lesson"
to be better prepared in the future.