Crisis change management during COVID-19 in the elective orthopaedic hospital: Easing the trauma burden of acute hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

With the emergence of the 2019 novel coronavirus and its resulting pandemic status in March 2020 all routine elective orthopaedic surgery was cancelled in our institution. The developing picture in Italy, of acute hospitals becoming overwhelmed with treating patients suffering with severe and life-threatening symptoms from the disease, prompted the orthopaedic surgeons to formulate a plan to transfer trauma patients requiring surgery to the elective hospital to unburden the acute hospital system.

Methods

Under the threat of this pandemic; protocols and algorithms were established for referral, acceptance and care of trauma patients from acute hospitals in the region. Each day, as new guidance on COVID-19 emerged, our process and algorithms were adjusted to refle

SUBMITTER: Gibbons JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7834163 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature