2023 ISAKOS Biennial Congress ePoster
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Primary and Revision Hip And Knee Arthroplasty - A Retrospective, Cohort Analysis from a Medical Centre in Romania
Tibi Bataga, Prof.MD, PhD, Targu-Mures ROMANIA
Arpad Solyom, MD, PhD, Lecturer, Târgu Mureș, Mureș ROMANIA
Flaviu Moldovan, MD, PhD, Targu Mures, Mureș ROMANIA
"George Emil Palade" University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures, Targu Mures, Mures, ROMANIA
FDA Status Not Applicable
Summary
The paper presents the impact generated by the COVID-19 pandemic on arthroplasty interventions, at an important regional hospital in Romania. We retrospectively analyzed between January 1, 2020 and until June 30, 2022 the primary arthroplasy interventions on patients: cemented knee, cemented hip, uncemented hip, partial hip, as well as hip and knee revision interventions.
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Abstract
Recently, the scientific literature presents more and more research carried out in different countries of the world at the medical center level, which evaluates the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on elective surgical interventions. In Romania, also the COVID-19 pandemic has seriously affected elective arthroplasty, and its impact has not been fully evaluated until now. The purpose of this research is to determine the impact generated by the COVID-19 pandemic on arthroplasty interventions, at an important regional hospital in the Center region, the Emergency County Clinical Hospital in Targu Mures.
We retrospectively analyzed between January 1, 2020 and until June 30, 2022 the primary arthroplasty interventions on patients: cemented knee, cemented hip, uncemented hip, partial hip, as well as hip and knee revision interventions. For the procedures studied, we first examined the monthly variation in the number of surgical interventions performed. Next, by evaluating the percentage changes in the average monthly cases, we compared the situation of surgical interventions through the studied procedures with other types of interventions performed in the hospital. We continued the study by examining the percentage changes in the average monthly number of arthroplasty cases, compared to the number of COVID-19 cases registered in the country. We also studied the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the duration of hospitalization for each of the studied interventions, as well as the percentage of patients who do not follow post-intervention recovery procedures and who are discharged at home. At the end of the study, we performed an economic analysis through which we evaluated the impact of the pandemic on the hospital's revenues.