NCT04450277

Delivery of Protocolised Emergency Surgical Care During COVID-19 Pandemic

Delivery of Protocolised Emergency Surgical Care During COVID-19 Pandemic Based on Case Series

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 15 (actual)
• Sponsor: Khoo Teck Puat Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Emergency general surgical care during the COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique set of considerations and challenges. Patients presenting with acute surgical conditions and concomitant COVID-19 infection have higher risk of mortality and morbidity. The investigators present their experience with COVID-19 positive patients presenting with acute surgical conditions and reviewed the implementation of a protocolized pathway to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 infection.

Detailed description

All COVID-19 positive patients who presented to the acute general surgical service over a 2-month period were identified. Patient data including demographics, surgical diagnosis, mortality, morbidity and hospital length of stay was collected. Based on the investigators' early experience from the first patient, the investigators designed a protocolized institutional pathway which incorporated the risk of COVID-19 infection and urgency of operation.

Conditions

• COVID-19
• Emergency Surgery

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Emergency surgery	Emergency surgery vs conservative management

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-04-01
• Primary completion: 2020-05-31
• Completion: 2020-05-31
• First posted: 2020-06-29
• Last updated: 2020-07-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Singapore