Table 4. Case volume by specialty across all phases during 2020.
* Represents trauma and other cases from STC operating rooms.
Values are average cases per week (percentage change from the PP phase).
EP: Early Pandemic Phase; OMFS: Oral Maxillofacial Surgery; OTO: Otorhinolaryngology; PP: Pre-Pandemic Phase; PUI: Patient Under Investigation; R1, Recovery 1 Phase; R2, Recovery 2 Phase; STC, Shock Trauma Center.
| Surgical Service | Average case volume per week by phase (% change from PP) | P value | ||||
| PP | EP | R1 | R2 | PP vs EP | PP vs R2 | |
| Cardiac surgery | 31.7 | 13.3 (-57.9) | 24.5 (-22.7) | 30.5 (-3.9) | <0.001 | 0.645 |
| Thoracic | 5.3 | 3 (-43.4) | 2.5 (-52.8) | 5.1 (-4.2) | 0.027 | 0.756 |
| Vascular | 25.4 | 11 (-56.7) | 18.8 (-26.2) | 25.8 (1.5) | <0.001 | 0.891 |
| STC* | 96.6 | 67.5 (-30.1) | 81.8 (-15.4) | 101.8 (5.4) | <0.001 | 0.116 |
| OTO/OMFS | 29.7 | 18.2 (-38.8) | 18.5 (-37.7) | 26.4 (-11.2) | <0.001 | 0.065 |
| Transplant | 8.2 | 6.2 (-24.8) | 9.3 (12.8) | 6.9 (-15.6) | 0.257 | 0.417 |
| Plastic surgery | 14.9 | 3.3 (-77.6) | 7 (-53.0) | 10.5 (-29.8) | <0.001 | 0.006 |
| Neurosurgery | 38 | 23.7 (-37.7) | 35 (-7.9) | 34 (-10.5) | <0.001 | 0.121 |
| Orthopedics | 52.7 | 34.3 (-34.9) | 43.5 (17.5) | 58.4 (10.8) | <0.001 | 0.1195 |
| Obstetrics | 29.5 | 25.2 (-14.7) | 26 (-11.9) | 30.7 (4.0) | 0.033 | 0.495 |
| Endoscopy | 59.2 | 16 (-73) | 23.5 (-60.3) | 40 (-32.4) | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| Interventional radiology | 12.1 | 5 (-58.7) | 7.5 (-38.0) | 9.2 (-24.3) | <0.001 | 0.026 |