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. 2022 Jun 27;14(6):626-628.
doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v14.i6.626.

Important role of acute care surgery during pandemic time

Ming Yang  1 , Chun-Ye Zhang  2
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Important role of acute care surgery during pandemic time

Ming Yang et al. World J Gastrointest Surg. .

Abstract

Pandemic impacts acute care surgery for diseases, such as gallbladder disease and acute appendicitis. At the early stage of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the case number of patients needing surgery decreased in hospitals from different countries. This decline was associated with the stay-home order and fear of getting COVID-19 infection. However, recent reports show that the case number for acute surgery returns to the normal level, which is comparable to that before the beginning of the pandemic. In addition, a variety of diseases show more severe than the cases before the pandemic, which might be caused by factors such as lack of regular follow-up and screening diagnosis and infection of viruses.

Keywords: Acute care surgery; Disease pattern and severity; Outcome; Pandemic impact.

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Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.

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