RE:Elective surgeries postponed Becker's ASC =
ambulatory surgery centers nationwide That was true in June and Sept. 2021, months after Delta was kind of under control, even before the Omicron variant was known!
June 1st -
106 hospitals postponing elective procedures amid the COVID-19 resurgence Sept. 1st -
UNC Health Southeastern to postpone some elective surgeries
This decision is one being made all across North Carolina right now.
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Patsy Newitt - Thursday, December 9th, 2021
Hospitals nationwide are again delaying nonurgent surgeries amid rising COVID-19 cases and the global spread of the omicron variant.
It is even more of a reality since Omicron started spreading, as per Dec. 9:
This study didn't even consider Omicron!!!
7 days ago — Millions of elective surgical procedures were cancelled worldwide ... elective surgery activity from December, 2021, to February, 2022, ...
7 days ago — Millions of elective surgical procedures were cancelled worldwide ... elective surgery activity from December, 2021, to February, 2022, ...
Published:December 16, 2021 Millions of elective surgical procedures were cancelled worldwide during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This enabled redistribution of staff and resources to provide care for patients with COVID-19 and addressed evidence that perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection increases postoperative mortality.
Although some hospitals established COVID-19-free surgical pathways to create safe elective surgery capacity,
the National Health Service (NHS) in England has not returned to pre-pandemic elective surgery activity levels.
The NHS faces winter pressures every year but enters this winter in a particularly fragile state.
The emergence of the omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant raises the possibility of rapid increases in COVID-19 admissions and intensified pressure on elective care.
We used NHS England activity data from the period following the end of the first COVID-19 wave (ie, from September, 2020, onwards) to estimate how increases in the number of hospital beds occupied by COVID-19 inpatients at any one time might affect elective surgery activity in England over the coming winter months. We calculated the potential shortfall in projected elective surgery activity from December, 2021, to February, 2022, compared to the same period in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic. Full methodology is described in the
appendix.