ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the effectiveness of emergency surgical care under COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on postoperative outcomes. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We analyzed the results of treatment of 1.749 patients who were treated from May 01 to September 30 in 2018-2020. The study group consisted of 48 COVID-19 patients with urgent surgical diseases. The control group consisted of patients with emergency surgical diseases and no coronavirus infection. RESULTS: The new coronavirus infection significantly increases in-hospital mortality by 8 times and postoperative mortality by 6.5 times compared to pre-pandemic period. CONCLUSION: Emergency surgical care to COVID-19 patients is accompanied by increase of in-hospital mortality up to 31.3% and postoperative mortality up to 33.3%.
