The effects of an overseas exam recommend that having “COVID-19-free” spaces in hospitals can prevent tens of thousands of surgical patients from experiencing headaches or dying alone in Canada.
Researchers tested the knowledge of 9171 patients undergoing elective cancer surgery in 55 countries, added Canada, from the onset of the coronavirus pandemic to mid-April 2020, and found that headaches and deaths after surgery decreased in patients whose remedy took position: spaces called COVID. -free.
At the same time, the study found that only 27% of patients were seen in those areas.
“What this would mean is for patients to show up for surgery, either for screening before admission or in the operating room, and then go to the recovery domain or intensive care unit or wake-up unit, this means that the full address will have to be loose and separated from all contact with COVID. Janet Martin explained from Western University in London, Ontario.
“This means that this is a very intentional route without COVID, particularly designed for surgical patients who, we know, are at increased risk of adverse situations if they come into contact with COVID at the time of surgery. “
Martin, a component of CovidSurg’s collaboration involving researchers around the world, says this pathway reduced the threat by about half. According to the data, other people’s lung headaches living in COVID-19-free spaces were documented at rates of 2. 2% compared to 4. 9% otherwise, COVID-19 contraction rates at the time of surgery were 2. 1% versus 3. 6% and postoperative mortality rates were 0. 7% versus 1. 7%.
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“Due to the magnitude of the threat reduction, we recommend that you be dedicating time and resources to the intentional implementation of this route without COVID to avoid this threat to our surgical patients. “
Martin noted that what was necessary to create such a route would differ from hospital to hospital.
“In this specific overall study, most of the hospitals that highlighted this address without COVID had done so within the 4 walls of their hospital, where they can also treat patients with COVID, but created a pathway without COVID, separated by existing barriers or transitory barriers were placed so that there was no combination of patients inside the same hospital where COVID patients can simply go to the room or be treated in the ICU, ” he said.
“Now that this study has been published, there will be a lot of activity in the coming days to clarify, how to establish a route without COVID in a hospital where COVID itself can be provided on its own?Very few hospitals or cities were able to separate COVID in a hospital from that without COVID in some other hospital, which may be within the boundaries of the same city, however, this was a less common scenario.
Researchers say more than three hundred million surgeries are taking a position in the international year and that having a COVID-19-free pathway in both hospitals can save you millions of headaches and serious deaths.
The CovidSurg Collaborative is led by researchers from the University of Birmingham in the UK and is made up of experts from more than 130 countries.
“While fitness service providers are reliving elective cancer surgery, they will need to seek to protect patients from cancer surgery by investing in committed hospital spaces without COVID-19. These can be adapted to available local resources, ensuring that patients are treated for COVID-19 are not combined with patients requiring surgery,” said Dr. Aneel Bhangu, covidSurg collaboration director at the University of Birmingham.
Adult patients in question undergo elective surgery for a variety of cancers, including: intestine, esophagus, stomach, head and neck, lung, liver, pancreas, bladder, prostate, kidney, uterus, cervix, ovary, breast, sarcoma and brain tumors.