Guidelines for endourological procedures during COVID-19 have suggested deferring all elective procedures, while obstructed/ infected stones should undergo urgent decompression. At our centre, screening protocols were implemented with prioritization strategies so that elective care could safely continue at deescalated rates. COVID or septic patients underwent emergency decompression, while non-COVID and non-septic patients underwent primary ureteroscopy (URS) or retrograde intrarenal surgery (RIRS). We aim to report our experience with endourological surgery for stone disease during COVID-19.
We conducted a retrospective review of a prospectively maintained database of all endourological surgeries for stones in our centre during the first wave of COVID19.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
158
Includes ureteral stent insertion, ureteroscopies and retrograde intrarenal surgeies
Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, Singapore
Singapore, Singapore
Length of hospital stay
Length of hospital stay
Time frame: From admission to discharge from hospital, up to 3 months
Complication rate
Complications as defined by Clavien Dindo classification system
Time frame: From admission up to 3 months post operatively
Stone free rate
Time frame: At follow up visit in clinic 3 months post procedure
Readmission rate
Time frame: From discharge up to three months post operatively
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