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. 2022 Oct;74(Suppl 2):2758-2763.
doi: 10.1007/s12070-020-02155-7. Epub 2020 Oct 1.

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

Balasubramanyam Atru  1 , Mithun Sutrave  1 , Rani George  1 , Rhea James  1 , Anita Ross  1 , Pratibha C B  1
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Otolaryngology Surgical Activity in Tertiary Care Center During the Covid-19 Lockdown

Balasubramanyam Atru et al. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2022 Oct.

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.

Keywords: Aerosol generating procedure; COVID 19; Tracheostomy; Triage.

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Distribution of surgeries done during COVID 19 lockdown
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Comparing the percentage of surgeries done during the lockdown vs that during the same period in the previous year
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Case distribution according to surgery triage
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Risk stratification
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