ENT Emergencies During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic at the Mohammed VI Hospital in Marrakech: Comparative Study Between Pre-and During COVID Pandemic in ENT Department

Othmane Benhoummad; Sara Rochd; Youssef Rochdi; Abdelaziz Raji

doi:10.1007/s12070-022-03146-6

ENT Emergencies During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic at the Mohammed VI Hospital in Marrakech: Comparative Study Between Pre-and During COVID Pandemic in ENT Department

Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2022 Oct;74(Suppl 2):3333-3336. doi: 10.1007/s12070-022-03146-6. Epub 2022 Oct 14.

Authors

Othmane Benhoummad¹, Sara Rochd², Youssef Rochdi², Abdelaziz Raji²

Affiliations

¹ Otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery department, Faculty of medicine and pharmacy of Agadir, University hospital Mohammed VI, Ibn Zohr university, Marrakech, Morocco.
² Otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery department, Faculty of medicine and pharmacy of Marrakech, University hospital Mohammed VI, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Maroc.

Abstract

The rapid global spreading of SARS-CoV2 virus had triggered a state of alert in health systems imposing safety measures to limit its spreading. The aim of our study is to compare the number and type of emergency admissions in our university hospital between the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic and the same period of the previous year. A decrease in the number of patients and the nature of pathologies admitted to the emergency room during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study highlights that the Covid 19 epidemic and the containment have largely reduced the influx of patients treated in the ENT university emergency department of Marrakech, thus demonstrating that level 2 regional hospitals can take care of the majority of ENT emergencies and leave access to the level 3 university hospital to patients requiring heavy and multidisciplinary management.

Keywords: COVID-19 first wave; Comparative study; ENT; Emergency.

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