Ophthalmological Emergencies and COVID-19 Pandemia

NCT ID: NCT05065788

Last Updated: 2021-10-04

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 500 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-02-01
• Study Completion Date: 2021-09-30

Brief Summary

To analyze how the COVID 19 pandemia has affected the patient's accesses to the Ophthalmological Emergency Department of a tertiary referral center in northern Italy, during the lockdown period. We will collect data from different periods in 2020, in which the Italian Governement called the total lockdown to same periods of the 2019. The charts of all patients will be evaluated to analyze demographics and clinical data

Detailed Description

Since the end of 2019, an outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), originating in the Chinese city of Wuhan has spread rapidly worldwide causing thousands of deaths. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is supported by SARS-CoV-2 and represents the causative agent of a potentially fatal disease that is of great global public health concern. Italy has been the first European country recording an elevated number of infected forcing the Italian Government to call for total lockdown. The lockdown had the aim to limit the spread of infection through social distancing. The purpose of this study is to analyze how the pandemic has affected the patient's accesses to the Ophthalmological Emergency Department of a tertiary referral center in northern Italy, during the lockdown period. The charts of all patients that came to the Emergency Department during the lockdown period (February -May, 2020 and October - December 2020) will be retrospectively collected and compared with those in the same periods of 2019 .

All demographics and clinical data will be analyzed and compared to evaluate differences and type of accesses.

Conditions

Trauma; Infections; Vision; Loss, Both Eyes

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: CASE_CONTROL
• Study Time Perspective: RETROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

2020 Lockdown period

Patients who access to Ophthalmological emergency service during lockdown period in 2020

data collection

Intervention Type: OTHER

data collection

2019

Patients who access to Ophthalmological emergency service in 2019 definite periods

data collection

Intervention Type: OTHER

data collection

Interventions

data collection

data collection

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Access to emergency room in the definite periods Completed Patients Charts -

Exclusion Criteria

Access to emergency room in other periods Demographics and clinical data not completed

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• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Università degli Studi dell'Insubria

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Simone Donati

Associate Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

ASST Sette Laghi

Varese, , Italy

Countries

Italy

References

Poyser A, Deol SS, Osman L, Kuht HJ, Sivagnanasithiyar T, Manrique R, Okafor LO, DeSilva I, Sharpe D, Savant V, Sarodia U, Sarvananthan N, Chaudhuri R, Banerjee S, Burns J, Thomas MG. Impact of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown on eye emergencies. Eur J Ophthalmol. 2021 Nov;31(6):2894-2900. doi: 10.1177/1120672120974944. Epub 2020 Nov 19.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 33213198 (View on PubMed)

Ehlken C, von Medem C, Ludemann M, Kirsch AM, Roider JB. Patients' perspective on emergency treatment of ophthalmologic diseases during the first phase of SARS-CoV2 pandemic in a tertiary referral center in Germany - the COVID-DETOUR questionnaire study. BMC Ophthalmol. 2021 Aug 16;21(1):301. doi: 10.1186/s12886-021-02054-7.

Reference Type: RESULT

PMID: 34399720 (View on PubMed)

Salvetat ML, Salati C, Busatto P, Zeppieri M. The impact of COVID-19 related national lockdown on ophthalmic emergency in Italy: A multicenter study. Eur J Ophthalmol. 2022 May;32(3):1782-1794. doi: 10.1177/11206721211028046. Epub 2021 Jul 3.

Reference Type: RESULT

PMID: 34219482 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

02/2021 - COVID and EYE

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id