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The Return Back to Typical Practice from the "Battle Plan" of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: A Comparative Study.

Abstract：

BACKGROUND:Every aspect of the medical field has been heavily affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and neurosurgical services are no exception. Several departments have reported their experiences and protocols to provide insights for others impacted. The goals of this study are to report the load and variety of neurosurgical cases and clinic visits after discontinuing the COVID-19 Battle Plan at an academic tertiary care referral center to provide insights for other departments going through the same transition. METHODS:The clinical data of all patients who underwent a neurosurgical intervention between May 4, 2020, and June 4, 2020 were obtained from a prospectively maintained database. Data of the control group were retrospectively collected from the medical records to compare the types of surgeries/interventions and clinic visits performed by the same neurosurgical service before the COVID-19 pandemic started. RESULTS:One hundred sixty-one patients underwent neurosurgical interventions, and seven-hundred one patients were seen in clinic appointments, in the 4-week period following easing back from our COVID-19 "Battle Plan." Discontinuing the "Battle Plan" resulted in increases in case load to above-average practice after a week but a continued decrease in clinic appointments throughout the 4 weeks compared with average practice. CONCLUSIONS:As policy-shaping crises like pandemics abate, easing back to "typical" practice can be completed effectively by appropriately allocating resources. This can be accomplished by anticipating increases in neurosurgical volume, specifically in the functional/epilepsy and brain tumor subspecialties, as well as continued decreases in neurosurgical clinic volume, specifically in elective spine.

journal_name

World Neurosurg

journal_title

World neurosurgery

authors

Pressman E,Noureldine MHA,Kumar JI,Krafft PR,Mantei B,Greenberg MS,Agazzi S,van Loveren H,Alikhani P

doi

10.1016/j.wneu.2020.07.083

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-10-01 00:00:00

pages

e481-e486

eissn

1878-8750

issn

1878-8769

pii

S1878-8750(20)31604-1

journal_volume

142

pub_type

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The Return Back to Typical Practice from the "Battle Plan" of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: A Comparative Study.