ArticleAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2020
The Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on pediatric surgery practice: A cross-sectional study.
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- Consequences of Social Distancing Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic First Wave on the Epidemiology of Children Admitted to Pediatric Emergency Departments and Pediatric Intensive Care Units: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Pooled it
- Association Between Congenital Gastrointestinal Malformation Outcome and Largely Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Pediatric Patients-A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Treatment trends for undescended testis and impact of guideline changes a medical health care analysis of orchidopexy and cryptorchidism in Germany between 2006 und 2020.World journal of urology · 2024Article
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- Patient and Process Outcomes among Pediatric Patients Undergoing Appendectomy during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Retrospective Cohort Study.Anesthesiology · 2023Article
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- A Canadian Weekend Elective Pediatric Surgery Program to Reduce the COVID-19-Related Backlog: Operating Room Ramp-Up After COVID-19 Lockdown Ends-Extra Lists (ORRACLE-Xtra) Implementation Study.JMIR perioperative medicine · 2022Article
- Pediatric Residency Training amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Impact of Supervision and Clinical Practice Guidelines on Clinical and Financial Outcomes.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2022Article
- How the First Year of COVID-19 Affected Elective Pediatric Urology Patients: A Longitudinal Study Based on Waiting Lists and Surveys From 10 European Centers.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Perioperative Management for Emergency Surgery in Pediatric Patients with COVID-19: Retrospective Observational Study.Open access emergency medicine : OAEM · 2022Article
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- Resilience Against COVID-19: How Italy Faced the Pandemic in Pediatric Orthopedics and Traumatology.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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- Outcomes of Ambulatory Pediatric Surgical Care Provision in a Conflict Affected Population in Kakuma Refugee Camp During a Measles Outbreak.Sage open pediatricsArticle
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Abstract
backgroundSince the COVID-19 pandemic was declared by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020, routine clinical practices were affected, including pediatric surgery services. We aimed to compare pediatric surgery practices, including the number and types of surgery, either elective or emergency surgeries and outpatient services, before the outbreak and during the COVID-19 pandemic in our institution. MATERIAL AND
methodsWe retrospectively compared pediatric surgery practices, including elective and emergency surgeries, and outpatient services between the previous one-year period (March 2019-February 2020), the last three months of that period (December 2019-February 2020) before the outbreak, and the three months (March-May 2020) during the COVID-19 pandemic in our hospital.
resultsThe frequency of elective surgeries during the pandemic was lower than during the last three months before the outbreak: 61 vs. 18 (~3-fold), 19 vs. 13 (~1.5-fold), 19 vs. 5 (~4-fold), and 30 vs. 15 (~2-fold) for digestive, neonate, urology and oncology cases, respectively. No laparoscopic procedures were performed during the pandemic compared with the one-year period before the outbreak (0
conclusionsThe pediatric surgery practices in our institution have been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, including elective and outpatient services. This setback needs a comprehensive strategy to avoid morbidity from the neglected elective surgeries during the pandemic, including the proper comparison between the real risk of COVID-19 cross-infection and the benefits of elective procedures.
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