Caracterización de la cirugía electiva de oído en tiempos de Covid 19 en el Hospital Universitario Clínica San Rafael
Year: 2023
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the form of professional medical practice in Colombia due to the suspension of consultations and non-urgent or priority surgical procedures. For this reason, elective ear surgeries have had to be postponed, affecting the needs of patients with otological pathologies. The objetive of study was to evaluate the presence of suspicious signs and/or symptoms of SARS-Cov2 infection in patients undergoing elective ear surgery in HUCSR. METHODOLOGY: Retrospective study. RESULTS: 67 ear surgeries were performed between September 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020, 64.17% were for chronic ear, 32.8% were taken to hearing rehabilitation with a cochlear implant or bone conduction device, 3 patients had a history of pathological arterial hypertension and one patient chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, no patient presented symptoms suggestive of COVID on the day of surgery, nor at 48 hours, 7 days and 14 days postoperatively. CONCLUSION: The patients taken to ear surgery at the Hospital Universitario Clínica San Rafael did not present signs or symptoms compatible with COVID infection during the study period, more analytical studies are required to show if this type of procedure is a risk factor. to acquire the infection.
Authors: Mónica Socha González, Néstor Julián Serrano García, Julián Alberto Bernal Aponte, Henry Leonardo Martínez Bejarano, José Alberto Prieto Rivera, Camilo Macías Tolosa, Carlos Felipe Franco Aristizábal
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Oncology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4384835545