Clinical trial NCT05323851: How Future Surgery Will Benefit From Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Related Measures Perspective From Italian Young Surgeon Society (SPIGC)
Official title: How Future Surgery Will Benefit From Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Related Measures Perspective From Italian Young Surgeon Society (SPIGC)
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: COVID-19
Health Behavior
Keywords: COVID-19
Survey
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocol
perioperative management
Lead sponsor: University of Rome Tor Vergata
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: SPIGC
First posted: 2022-04-12
Enrollment: 581
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Any attending surgeon, resident, PhD candidate, or fellow in any surgical specialty in Italy

Brief summary: The coronavirus 2019 pandemic (COVID-19) strongly affected clinical care worldwide. Due to a shortage of hospitals and beds in intensive care units (ICU), in Italy during outbreaks, surgical resources were temporarily and partially shifted to COVID-19 patients. In addition, the risk of cross-infection could have determined a shit in surgical perioperative care.

To counterbalance these limitations, many centers routinely changed their clinical practice, which could be maintained by surgeons across Italy. The aim of the present study is to evaluate how the COVID-19 pandemic determined a change in daily clinical practice among all specialties.

Detailed description: The purpose of this investigation, organized by the Italian Young Surgeon Society (S.P.I.G.C.), is to establish the impact of the coronavirus 2019 pandemic (COVID-19) on clinical care in Italy.

There will be collected from any Italian surgeon (resident, Fellow, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) candidate, attending surgeon, professor) impressions by completing a survey on this topic.

The analysis is divided into three study periods. For each question, participants must answer for each period. Time frames were divided according to three distinct phases of the pandemic: pre-COVID-19 period, COVID-19 pandemic period, COVID-19 Endemic period.

The pre-COVID-19 period was defined between eighth March 2019 and seventh March 2020, whereas the COVID-19 pandemic period was identified between the declaration of Italian lockdown measures (eighth March 2020) until the release of this questionnaire (sixteenth March 2022) with the periodic pandemic outbreaks. Finally, COVID-19 endemic period was described as a future phase where lockdown measures and social distancing will be removed.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Resident, Fellow, PhD candidate, consultant or attending surgeon in Italy in the following surgical specialties: cardiothoracic surgery, colon and rectal surgery, general surgery, gynecology and obstetrics, gynecologic oncology, neurological surgery, ophthalmic surgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthopedic surgery, otorhinolaryngology, pediatric surgery, plastic and maxillofacial surgery, urology, and vascular surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

* undergraduate students
* Non-Surgical consultant

Primary outcomes:
measure: The measure of the Italian surgical daily practice before coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19)
timeFrame: 12 months before the beginning of COVID-19 emergency in Italy (between eighth March 2019 and seventh March 2020)
measure: The measure of the Italian surgical daily practice during coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19)
timeFrame: COVID-19 pandemic (between eighth March 2020 and sixteenth March 2022)
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
measure: Expectation of the Italian surgical daily practice after coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19)
timeFrame: 12 months after the release of COVID-surg-SPIGC questionnaire.
Locations:
city: Roma
country: Italy
facility: Azienza ospedaliera S. Camillo Forlanini
state: Rome
city: Roma
country: Italy
facility: Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico
city: Roma
country: Italy
facility: Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
Study officials:
affiliation: Università degli studi di Roma Tor Vergata
name: Roberta Angelico
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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