Anesthetic & Surgical Protocol for Emergency Surgeries During the Era of COVID-19

Benha University209 enrolled

Overview

A protocol applied during anesthesia and surgical interventions for patients with emergency surgical conditions during the era of COVID-19 disease

All COVID-19 patients who were admitted to emergency departments presenting with emergency surgical conditions were evaluated for assurance of having COVID-19 disease. Then, the appropriate anesthetic procedure was applied and the appropriate surgical intervention was performed.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

209

Conditions

COVID-19

Interventions

Emergency surgical proceduresPROCEDURE

COVID-19 patients who had presented to the Emergency Department were evaluated for their emergency surgical conditions and were managed appropriately

Eligibility

Sex: ALL

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Assured diagnosis of COVID-19 by RT-PCR Exclusion Criteria: * No

Locations (1)

Faculty of Medicine

Banhā, Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Questionnaire

This questionnaire was designed to assess the satisfaction of the anesthetist in-charge and the surgeon by the applied protocol to manage COVID-19 patients

Time frame: Up to two days

Secondary Outcomes

Physiologic assessment

estimation of systolic and diastolic blood pressures of patients during and after surgery

Time frame: Up to one day

Surgical follow-up

Postoperative assessment of wounds and drainage tube, if any, and to determine the success of the procedure or the development of complications

Time frame: Up to 10 days

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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