The prevalence of emergency surgical conditions among COVID-19 patients in Kirkuk Province, Iraq

ABSTRACT

Surgeries have suffered a worldwide threat due to theCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The same as the rest of the health care systems in the world. Especially in hospitals that have been designated for patients with this pandemic.The aim of the study is to evaluate patients who are undergoing emergency surgery in the hospital through the pandemic COVID-19. A cross-sectional study of emergency surgeries (retrospective) that was performed between June 1 and December 31, 2020, was conducted in the General Surgery Words of Kirkuk General Hospital in the State of Iraq, which was designated for the admission of pandemic patients.76 patients were listed as a total, 69 among them left the hospital without any event, while 7 of them died during the postoperative period.The patients discharged from the hospital did not have any positive for COVID-19 at follow-up.As for the general surgery cases, there were 36 cases, 29 of them males and 7 females.As well as there were 7 cases that underwent exploratory abdominal surgeries.As for the outcome of 30 patients with Covid-19 who required major surgery, it was as follows 25 cases recovered, 5 patients died during the postoperative period, and some of them had complications as follows 10 wound infection, 4 incisional hernia, and 3 septicemia.We concluded that emergency surgeries for the infected patients with the COVID-19 virus and who were present in the hospital were performed with high success rates, due to the full commitment to isolation and prevention measures.