A District General Hospital Trauma Service Response to COVID-19 : Lessons Learnt
Copyright © 2020, Prokopenko et al..
OBJECTIVE: This article seeks to evaluate and outline the changes made to the trauma and orthopaedic department in a district general hospital in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic. We detail the approach in relation to surgical management, workforce optimisation and our general reflections as a department.
METHODS: We interviewed, collated and have subsequently described the adaptations implemented by our department. We have collected their shared strategy and reflections on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected our department.
RESULTS: Alterations were implemented to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. A strategy focused on ensuring the workforce remained healthy, and patient care pathways were altered as minimally as possible.
CONCLUSIONS: As a unit, a sense of heightened vigilance needs to remain for the foreseeable future. Decisive action by departmental leadership, alongside a cohesive and open, has allowed for our trauma service to continue largely unchanged. This analysis serves as an important aide-memoire for future periods of extreme uncertainty.
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E-Artikel |
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| Erscheinungsjahr: |
2020 |
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2020 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12 |
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| Enthalten in: |
Cureus - 12(2020), 12 vom: 14. Dez., Seite e12087 |
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Englisch |
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| Beteiligte Personen: |
Prokopenko, Max [VerfasserIn] |
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Acute care surgery and trauma |
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Date Revised 26.01.2021 published: Electronic Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
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10.7759/cureus.12087 |
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| 520 | |a CONCLUSIONS: As a unit, a sense of heightened vigilance needs to remain for the foreseeable future. Decisive action by departmental leadership, alongside a cohesive and open, has allowed for our trauma service to continue largely unchanged. This analysis serves as an important aide-memoire for future periods of extreme uncertainty | ||
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