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ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2023

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Postoperative Neurosurgical Infections at a Reference Center in México.

José Luis Soto Hernández, Luis Esteban Ramírez González, Guadalupe Reyes Ramírez, Carolina Hernández Hernández, Natalia Rangel Torreblanca, Verónica Ángeles Morales, Karen Flores Moreno, Miguel Ramos Peek, Sergio Moreno Jiménez

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Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

José Luis Soto HernándezInfectious Diseases Department, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Manuel Velasco Suárez, Tlalpan, Ciudad de México 14269, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-4712-1809
Luis Esteban Ramírez GonzálezInfectious Diseases Department, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Manuel Velasco Suárez, Tlalpan, Ciudad de México 14269, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0003-2478-4260
Guadalupe Reyes RamírezInfection Control Committee, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Manuel Velasco Suárez, Tlalpan, Ciudad de México 14269, Mexico.
Carolina Hernández HernándezInfection Control Committee, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Manuel Velasco Suárez, Tlalpan, Ciudad de México 14269, Mexico.
Natalia Rangel TorreblancaInfection Control Committee, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Manuel Velasco Suárez, Tlalpan, Ciudad de México 14269, Mexico.
Verónica Ángeles MoralesMicrobiology Laboratory, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Manuel Velasco Suárez, Tlalpan, Ciudad de México 14269, Mexico.
Karen Flores MorenoMicrobiology Laboratory, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Manuel Velasco Suárez, Tlalpan, Ciudad de México 14269, Mexico.
Miguel Ramos PeekNeurosurgery Division, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Manuel Velasco Suárez, Tlalpan, Ciudad de México 14269, Mexico.
Sergio Moreno JiménezNeurosurgery Division, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Manuel Velasco Suárez, Tlalpan, Ciudad de México 14269, Mexico.
Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía · MX

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major global impact on the treatment of hospitalized surgical patients. Our study retrospectively evaluates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic at a neurosurgical reference center in Mexico City. We compared the number of neurosurgeries, the rate and type of postoperative infections, the causative microorganisms and in-hospital mortality rates in a 4-year period, from the pre-pandemic year 2019 until 2022. A total of 4150 neurosurgical procedures were registered. In 2020 the total number of surgeries was reduced by 36% compared to 2019 OR = 0.689 (95% CI 0.566-0.834)

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COVID-19 pandemicCSF diversion proceduresneurosurgerypost-operative complicationssurgical site infectionsventriculitiswound infection

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PMID37370372
PMCPMC10295382
OpenAlexW4380991909

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