Table 5.

Percent technical changes.

Specialty	Pre-pandemic	Post-pandemic
Cardiovascular surgery	+0.1 ± 3.7	−5.4 ± 3.0
Emergency surgery	−3.9 ± 3.7	−4.6 ± 6.3
General surgery	+7.0 ± 10.6	−2.4 ± 9.4
Neurosurgery	−4.6 ± 3.7	−5.3 ± 2.7
Obstetrics and gynecology	−3.9 ± 4.1	−1.1 ± 7.5
Orthopedics	−8.0 ± 9.7	−5.5 ± 5.1
Otolaryngology	−16.3 ± 8.1	+2.7 ± 20.4
Plastic surgery	−25.4 ± 9.2*	+6.3 ± 18.1
Thoracic surgery	−8.3 ± 4.0	+4.3 ± 10.6
Urology	−10.6 ± 6.1	0.0 ± 7.9
All surgical procedures	−7.4 ± 2.1*	−1.1 ± 3.0

The values are expressed as mean ± SE.

^*Indicates that the value is significantly different from 0 (p < 0.05). There was no statistically significant difference between “pre-pandemic” and “post-pandemic.”