Emergency surgery admissions and the COVID-19 pandemic: did the first wave really change our practice? Results of an ACOI/WSES international retrospective cohort audit on 6263 patients

Abstract Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic is having a deep impact on emergency surgical services, with a significant reduction of patients admitted into emergency surgical units world widely. Reliable figures of this reduction have not been produced yet. Our international audit aimed at giving a p...

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Main Authors: Giovanni D. Tebala, Marika S. Milani, Mark Bignell, Giles Bond-Smith, Christopher Lewis, Roberto Cirocchi, Salomone Di Saverio, Fausto Catena, Marco Scatizzi, Pierluigi Marini, the CovidICE-International Collaborative
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-01-01
Series:World Journal of Emergency Surgery
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13017-022-00407-1