Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Steinberg-Bernstein Centre for Minimally Invasive Surgery and Innovation, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Br J Surg. 2021 Apr 5;108(3):e105-e106. doi: 10.1093/bjs/znaa096.
The authors observed a 36 per cent reduction in emergency department utilization by children with general surgical conditions during the first 2 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. In their institutional experience, timely implementation of operative safety protocols centred around universal preoperative COVID-19 testing, which enabled standard-of-care treatment for common paediatric surgical diseases to be upheld during the COVID-19 pandemic.
作者观察到,在 COVID-19 大流行的头 2 个月,患有普通外科疾病的儿童对急诊部的利用率降低了 36%。在他们的机构经验中,及时实施以普遍进行术前 COVID-19 检测为中心的手术安全方案,使 COVID-19 大流行期间能够维持常见儿科外科疾病的标准治疗。