• J. Matern. Fetal. Neonatal. Med. · Jul 2020

    Personal Protective Equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic and operative time in cesarean section: retrospective cohort study.

    • Marcos Javier Cuerva, María Carbonell, Giovanna Martín Palumbo, Sara Lopez Magallon, María De La Calle, and José Luis Bartha.
    • Department of Obstetrics, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain.
    • J. Matern. Fetal. Neonatal. Med. 2020 Jul 14: 1-4.

    IntroductionThe covid-19 pandemic has meant a change in working protocols, as well as in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Obstetricians have had to adapt quickly to these changes without knowing how they affected their clinical practice. The aim of the present study was to evaluate how COVID-19 pandemic and PPE can affect operative time, operating room time, transfer into the operating room to delivery time and skin incision to delivery time in cesarean section.MethodsThis is a single-center retrospective cohort study. Women with confirmed or suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection having a cesarean section after March 7th, 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic were included in the study. For each woman with confirmed or suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection, a woman who had a cesarean section for the same indication during the COVID-19 pandemic and with similar clinical history but not affected by SARS-CoV-2 was included.Results42 cesarean sections were studied. The operating room time was longer in the COVID-19 confirmed or suspected women: 90 (73.0 to 110.0) versus 61 (48.0 to 70.5) minutes; p < .001. The transfer into the operating room to delivery time was longer, but not statistically significant, in urgent cesarean sections in COVID-19 confirmed or suspected women: 25.5 (17.5 to 31.75) versus 18.0 (10.0 to 26.25) minutes; p = .113.ConclusionsThere were no significant differences in the operative time, transfer into the operating room to delivery time and skin incision to delivery time when wearing PPE in cesarean section. The COVID-19 pandemic and the use of PPE resulted in a significant increase in operating room time.

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