Table 2.
Surgical procedures and protective measures by countries’ risk group
| Overall |
Countries’ risk group |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
High risk |
Int. risk |
Low risk |
P value |
||
|
936 |
330 |
242 |
364 |
||
|
Surgical procedures performed. No. (%):* | |||||
| Emergency |
863 (92.2) |
317 (96.1) |
230 (95.0) |
316 (86.8) |
<0.001 |
| Oncologic elective |
640 (68.4) |
222 (67.3) |
189 (78.1) |
229 (62.9) |
<0.001 |
| Non oncologic elective |
263 (28.1) |
28 (8.5) |
71 (29.3) |
164 (45.1) |
<0.001 |
| Office procedures and one-day surgery |
159 (17.0) |
17 (5.2) |
41 (16.9) |
101 (27.8) |
<0.001 |
|
How do you perform surgery? No. (%):* | |||||
| As usual |
398 (42.5) |
75 (22.7) |
93 (38.4) |
230 (63.2) |
<0.001 |
| Try to avoid laparoscopic cases |
187 (20.0) |
79 (23.9) |
63 (26.0) |
45 (12.4) |
<0.001 |
| With dedicated PPE |
320 (34.2) |
178 (53.9) |
74 (30.6) |
68 (18.7) |
<0.001 |
| If laparoscopic, use smoke aspiration devices |
238 (25.4) |
133 (40.3) |
57 (23.6) |
48 (13.2) |
<0.001 |
|
When is a surgical patient isolated? No. (%) | |||||
| Every patient is isolated until proved COVID-19 negative |
101 (10.8) |
62 (18.8) |
27 (11.2) |
12 (3.3) |
<0.001 |
| If symptomatic/suspected/COVID-19 positive |
722 (77.1) |
258 (78.2) |
202 (83.5) |
262 (72.0) |
|
| Others |
113 (12.1) |
10 (3.0) |
13 (5.4) |
90 (24.7) |
|
|
Are you doing hospital team-rotations? No. (%): | |||||
| Yes |
268 (28.6) |
105 (31.8) |
96 (39.7) |
67 (18.4) |
<0.001 |
| No |
668 (71.4) |
225 (68.2) |
146 (60.3) |
297 (81.6) |
|
|
When do you wear medical masks? No. (%):* | |||||
| When visiting symptomatic/suspected/COVID-19 positive patients |
141 (15.1) |
40 (12.1) |
48 (19.8) |
53 (14.6) |
0.04 |
| When visiting every patient |
124 (13.2) |
34 (10.3) |
29 (12.0) |
61 (16.8) |
0.04 |
| Always in hospital |
677 (71.8) |
265 (80.3) |
159 (65.7) |
253 (69.5) |
<0.001 |
|
Which are easily available: No. (%):* | |||||
| Gloves |
880 (94.0) |
309 (93.6) |
227 (93.8) |
344 (94.5) |
0.88 |
| Gowns |
573 (61.3) |
186 (56.4) |
130 (53.9) |
257 (70.6) |
<0.001 |
| Eye protection |
405 (43.3) |
121 (36.7) |
113 (46.7) |
171 (47.0) |
0.01 |
| Medical masks |
736 (78.6) |
259 (78.5) |
196 (81.0) |
281 (77.2) |
0.54 |
| FFP2/FFP3 or respirator N95 |
231 (24.7) |
83 (25.2) |
71 (29.3) |
77 (21.2) |
0.07 |
| Hand sanitizer | 791 (84.5) | 263 (79.7) | 216 (89.3) | 312 (85.7) | 0.005 |
Int – intermediate, PPE – personal protective equipment
*Percentages do not add up to 100 because of the multiple choice questions.