Clinical trial NCT05065788: Ophthalmological Emergencies and COVID-19 Pandemia
Official title: Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic and Related Lockdown on Eye Emergencies Accesses
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Trauma
Infections
Vision; Loss, Both Eyes
Keywords: ocular emergency
vision loss
Lead sponsor: Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-10-04
Enrollment: 500
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Patients registered for access to emergency ophthalmological room in the periods:

2020 from February to May and from October to December 2019 from February to May and from October to December

Brief summary: 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: 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.

Eligibility criteria: 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

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Primary outcomes:
measure: number of patients
timeFrame: 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Type of pathologies
timeFrame: 1 year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Varese
country: Italy
facility: ASST Sette Laghi
Study officials:
References:
citation: Poyser A, Deol SS, Osman L, Kuht HJ, Sivagnanasithiyar T, Manrique R, Okafor LO, DeSilva I, Sharpe D, Savant V, Sarodia U, Sarvananthan N, Chaudhuri R, Banerjee S, Burns J, Thomas MG. Impact of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown on eye emergencies. Eur J Ophthalmol. 2021 Nov;31(6):2894-2900. doi: 10.1177/1120672120974944. Epub 2020 Nov 19.
citation: Ehlken C, von Medem C, Ludemann M, Kirsch AM, Roider JB. Patients' perspective on emergency treatment of ophthalmologic diseases during the first phase of SARS-CoV2 pandemic in a tertiary referral center in Germany - the COVID-DETOUR questionnaire study. BMC Ophthalmol. 2021 Aug 16;21(1):301. doi: 10.1186/s12886-021-02054-7.
citation: Salvetat ML, Salati C, Busatto P, Zeppieri M. The impact of COVID-19 related national lockdown on ophthalmic emergency in Italy: A multicenter study. Eur J Ophthalmol. 2022 May;32(3):1782-1794. doi: 10.1177/11206721211028046. Epub 2021 Jul 3.