Ophthalmological Emergencies and COVID-19 Pandemia

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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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

Detailed Description
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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.

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

Conditions
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Trauma, Infections, Vision; Loss, Both Eyes

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: data collection


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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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 -
Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| 2020 Lockdown period<br>Patients who access to Ophthalmological emergency service during lockdown period in 2020 | Other: data collection<br>* data collection<br>|
| 2019<br>Patients who access to Ophthalmological emergency service in 2019 definite periods | Other: data collection<br>* data collection<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| number of patients | evaluation of number of accesses | 1 year | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Type of pathologies | Classification according to type of pathologies that causes the access to Emergency Room | 1 year | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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ocular emergency, vision loss