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Repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic in the emergency department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at a referral hospital in Portugal

2022; Volume: 34; Issue: 01 Linguagem: Inglês

10.36129/jog.34.01.05

2385-0868

Sofia Jovina Domingues, M. Ormonde, A. Miguel, Amanda de Paula Martins, I. Saavedra, M. do Carmo Silva,

Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units

Objective.COVID-19 has spread worldwide and Portugal decreed the State of Emergency on March 18 th , 2020.During this period, the population was encouraged to stay at home.Still, there were no restrictions on access to health care.Therefore, we aimed to compare the major causes for attending the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Emergency Department (ED) from a referral centre (Maternidade Dr. Alfredo da Costa, in Lisbon).Materials and Methods.Several variables were collected and compared between two periods of time: from 19 th March to 2 nd April 2020 and the same period of 2019.Results.During the COVID-19 pandemic period, 49.4% fewer patients visited the ED.We observed a higher number of urgent patients and hospitalization rate than previous year.Conclusions.We experienced a reduction number of admissions to the Obstetrics and Gynaecology ED, but apparently the severity of cases that visited the ED increased.