Journal of Surgery and Anesthesia

Abstract

Evaluation of the Impact of the Pandemic in the Operating Room in 2020. Cross Sectional Study

Ayse Yilmaz*, Ufuk Demir, Mehmet A. Narsat and Ozgur Yilmaz

Purpose: COVID-19 disease caused a rapid pandemic all over the world, and of course, it was affected by this situation in operating rooms. We aimed to retrospectively review and evaluate the operating room records of the operations taken in our operating room during this pandemic period.

Materials and methods: Retrospective records of surgeries performed in our hospital operating room between January and June were reviewed. The first three months of 2020 are the period without COVID-19 pandemic and the next three months are the months of COVID-19 pandemic. The number of operations taken in these two periods were compared. American Soceity of Anesthesia (ASA) risk classifications of the patients undergoing surgery were examined. The anesthesia methods preferred to the patients were examined and recorded.

Results: It was determined that a total of 2008 surgeries were performed between January and June in the operating room. It was observed that majority of patients who were operated before and during the pandemic period were in the ASA 2 group. It was observed that regional anesthesia was preferred in most of the patients.

Discussion: When we looked at the surgeries of the last three months we could clearly see that emergency surgeries were more. It may be a reason why patients do not want to come to the pandemic hospital until their illness progresses or not performing elective surgeries means that patients wait directly and some diseases progress and reach the point of surgery quickly.

Published Date: 2021-03-12; Received Date: 2021-02-19