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ArticleIndian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India2022

Otolaryngology Surgical Activity in Tertiary Care Center During the Covid-19 Lockdown.

Balasubramanyam Atru, Mithun Sutrave, Rani George, Rhea James, Anita Ross, Pratibha C B

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Article in Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The effect of COVID-19 pandemic on routine surgical turnover in otolaryngology: a retrospective analysis of service dynamics utilizing finalized, cumulative data from a tertiary-care teaching institute in India.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2025
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  2. Impact of COVID-19 restrictions on hospitalisation and post-operative rehabilitation of head and neck cancer patients.Acta otorhinolaryngologica Italica : organo ufficiale della Societa italiana di otorinolaringologia e chirurgia cervico-facciale · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Balasubramanyam AtruDepartment of ENT, St John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Sarjapur Road, Bangalore, Karnataka 560034 India.
Mithun SutraveDepartment of ENT, St John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Sarjapur Road, Bangalore, Karnataka 560034 India.ORCID 0000-0003-3355-5582
Rani GeorgeDepartment of ENT, St John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Sarjapur Road, Bangalore, Karnataka 560034 India.
Rhea JamesDepartment of ENT, St John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Sarjapur Road, Bangalore, Karnataka 560034 India.
Anita RossDepartment of ENT, St John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Sarjapur Road, Bangalore, Karnataka 560034 India.
Pratibha C BDepartment of ENT, St John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Sarjapur Road, Bangalore, Karnataka 560034 India.
St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences · IN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Corona virus disease (COVID 19) is an infectious respiratory disease caused by the novel virus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). With many countries implementing lockdown the surgical activities in the division of otolaryngology across the world has been affected with many hospital confining themselves to only emergency or essential surgeries. The aim of this work is to report and discuss the in the surgical activity of the otolaryngology unit of the St John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore (India) during the pandemic. We performed acute and subacute emergencies which include diagnosis and treatment of malignant tumors of the head and neck, management of airway emergencies in adults and children, drainage of abscesses of the head and neck, Foreign body removal, emergency nasal debridement and surgeries for the unsafe ear. With the pandemic the surgical activities in otolaryngology changed drastically and with strict protocol and triaging put in place the risk for Health care workers was avoided and services to patients delivered.

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PMID33020733
PMCPMC7528446
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