Non-COVID surgical load of operation theatre during COVID-19 pandemic in Armed Forces tertiary care centres: “Snapshot of two timelines”

Paul, Shamik K.; Joshi, Arjun S.; Goel, Akhil Dhanesh; Singh, Gunjan; Paul, Debashish; Dhiman, Mayank; Singh, Mithunjeet

doi:10.1016/j.mjafi.2022.04.016

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“…A multicenter study in India showed similarly a decrease in the number of elective surgical cases in ophthalmology during the pandemic. [ 13 ] However, this number did not change in other specialties such as obstetrics, oncology, orthopedics, and neurosurgery. [ 13 ] Another study in Taiwan stated that the ophthalmology department was one of the most affected departments with workload decline after the start of the pandemic.…”

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“…[ 13 ] However, this number did not change in other specialties such as obstetrics, oncology, orthopedics, and neurosurgery. [ 13 ] Another study in Taiwan stated that the ophthalmology department was one of the most affected departments with workload decline after the start of the pandemic. [ 14 ] The load of cataract surgeries per month decreased during the pandemic and did not recover to prepandemic levels in Saudi Arabia, and a 41.6% decrease in the number of rhegmatogenous retinal detachments was noted during the 2 months lockdown period in 2020 in France, without compensating postlockdown activity.…”

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The Ophthalmology Workload during the Lebanese Crisis and Pandemic

Wehbi,

Halawy,

Noureddin

et al. 2023

Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology

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PURPOSE: The purpose is to to explore the effects of the Lebanese economic crisis on the ophthalmology workload in Lebanon, and the concomitant influence of the COVID-19-related lockdown and Beirut port explosion. METHODS: Data pertaining to all the clinic visits to the Ophthalmology Department at the American University of Beirut Medical Center between January 01, 2019, and December 31, 2021, were extracted. Completed visits to different subspecialties were used to analyze the different parameters. All parameters were compared across the 3 years. RESULTS: We included 102,810 completed visits in this study. A total decrease of 15.3% occurred in visits between 2019 and 2020. The mean number of patients per month decreased significantly between 2019 and 2020 in retina/uveitis and glaucoma/anterior segment clinics. The same trend was observed in pediatric/neuro-ophthalmology and cornea/refractive surgery, although it did not reach statistical significance. For oculoplastics, the workload actually tended to increase from 2019 to 2021. During the pandemic-related lockdown (March, April, and May 2020), the workload decreased by 37.8% in oculoplastics, 63.4% in pediatric/neuro-ophthalmology, 52.8% in retina/uveitis, 60.2% in cornea/refractive surgery, and 50.7% in glaucoma/anterior segment. After the Beirut port explosion in August 2020, an overall decrease of 30.2% was found in the number of patient visits in all sub-specialties, while the number of patients in oculoplastics remained nearly unchanged. CONCLUSION: The ophthalmology workload was strongly affected by the economic crisis in all subspecialties especially with the pandemic in 2020, except for oculoplastics. During the pandemic, the most affected subspecialty was the pediatric/neuroophthalmology, while oculoplastics was the least affected.

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