The current COVID-19 pandemic has raised a number of problems never encountered
before by the European Community. We are facing a difficult period in which a poorly known …

The novel disease COVID-19 caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus
2 (SARS-CoV-2) was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation on the 11th …

The end of 2019 was marked by the emergence of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Our problem is centered in the post operative follow up of …

Aim The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in January 2020 affected largely the elective
operating for non-urgent surgical pathologies, such as hernias, due to periodical …

As our hospitals become overwhelmed with the COVID-19 pandemic, our ability to provide
timely and safe emergency surgical care has been called into question [1] In our hospital …

Background Swedish healthcare has been reorganised during the COVID-19 pandemic,
affecting the availability of surgery for benign conditions. The aim of this study was to …

Aim The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in a lockdown in South
East Scotland on 23 March 2020. This had an impact on the volume of benign elective …

Background The significant decrease in elective surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic
prompted fears that there would be an increase in emergency or urgent operations for …

Background The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
on emergency anterior abdominal wall hernia surgeries (EAAWHS) by comparing the …

Introduction Several articles have been published about the reorganisation of surgical
activity during the COVID-19 pandemic but few, if any, have focused on the impact that this …