Ophthalmological Emergencies and COVID-19 Pandemia

Trauma Clinical Trial

Official title:

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic and Related Lockdown on Eye Emergencies Accesses

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05065788
• Other study ID #: 02/2021 - COVID and EYE
• Status: Completed
• Start date: February 1, 2020
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: September 2021
• Source: Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial 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

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 500
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: September 1, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

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 -

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Emergencies
• Infections
• Trauma

Intervention

Other:
• data collection
data collection

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Italy	ASST Sette Laghi	Varese

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Università degli Studi dell'Insubria

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Italy, 

References & Publications (3)

Ehlken C, von Medem C, Lüdemann 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. — View Citation

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. 2020 Nov 19:1120672120974944. doi: 10.1177/1120672120974944. [Epub ahead of print] — View Citation

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. 2021 Jul 3:11206721211028046. doi: 10.1177/11206721211028046. [Epub ahead of print] — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	number of patients	evaluation of number of accesses	1 year
Secondary	Type of pathologies	Classification according to type of pathologies that causes the access to Emergency Room	1 year