ArticleUlusal travma ve acil cerrahi dergisi = Turkish journal of trauma & emergency surgery : TJTES2022
The effect of COVID-19 pandemic on the characteristics of patients presenting to the pediatric ocular emergency department in Türkiye: Demographic and diagnoses.
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- Bibliometric analysis of published works in ocular trauma: a growing focus on open globe injury.International ophthalmology · 2025Review
- Impact of social distancing policy on pediatric emergency ophthalmic severity during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.Pediatrics international : official journal of the Japan Pediatric SocietyArticle
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backgroundThis study aims to evaluate how the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted the demographics and diagnoses of patients presenting at a pediatric ophthalmology emergency department (POED) in Türkiye.
methodsThe electronic medical records of patients <18 years old who presented at the POED from March 15 to May 31, 2020 (first stay-at-home period), and from November 15 to December 31, 2020 (second stay-at-home period), were retrospectively scanned. The demographic data and clinical diagnoses from those periods and the same periods in 2019 were compared.
resultsNo significant differences emerged regarding age (p=0.067) or sex (p=0.268) among the 839 pediatric patients who visited the POED in 2019 (n=510) versus 2020 (n=329). Compared with 2019, 50.63% of fewer patients visited the POED in the first stay-at-home period (i.e., 322 vs. 159) and 9.66% fewer visited in the second period (i.e., 188 vs. 170). The diagnoses in 2019 and 2020 were similar, with foreign body being the most common diagnosis, followed by ocular trauma.
conclusionAmid the COVID-19 pandemic, fewer pediatric patients visited the POED during the first and second stay-at-home periods than during the same periods in 2019, although the difference was less during the second period. Demographic data and diagnoses from year to year, however, were similar. These findings could aid clinicians in developing new strategies and guidelines for POED management in extraordinary situations such as pandemics.
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