Emergency Department Utilization By Children With General Surgical Conditions During The Covid-19 Pandemic

The authors observed a 36 per cent reduction in emergency department utilization by children with general surgical conditions during the first 2 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. In their institutional experience, timely implementation of operative safety protocols centred around universal preoperative COVID-19 testing, which enabled standard-of-care treatment for common paediatric surgical diseases to be upheld during the COVID-19 pandemic.