Swati Bhan, Raghav Gupta, Saurabh Vig, Rakesh Garg, Nishkarsh Gupta, Vinod Kumar, Sachidanand Jee Bharati, Seema Mishra, Brajesh Ratre, Anuja Pandit, Prashant Sirohiya, Ram Singh, Balbir Kumar, Shweta Bhopale, Sushma Bhatnagar
Swati Bhan Introduction This paper aims to provide an overview of the administrative and clinical preparations done in a tertiary care cancer hospital in continuing operation theatre (OT) services through the COVID pandemic. Methods Retrospective data collection, data for the past 1.5 years (COVID period) March 2020 to August 2021 were compared to surgical output for a similar duration of time before the COVID era (September 2018-February 2020). Results A total of 1,022 surgeries were done under anesthesia in the COVID period as against 1,710 surgeries done in a similar time frame in the pre-COVID era...
January 2024: South Asian Journal of Cancer