Ophthalmological Emergencies and COVID-19 Pandemia

Completed

• Conditions: Trauma; Infections; Vision; Loss, Both Eyes
• Interventions: Other: data collection

• Registration Number: NCT05065788
• Lead Sponsor: Università degli Studi dell'Insubria

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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-02-01
• Status Verified: 2021-09
• Primary Completion: 2021-09-01
• Study Completion: 2021-09-30
• Study First Submitted: 2021-09-30
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-09-30
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-09-30
• Study First Posted: 2021-10-04
• Last Update Posted: 2021-10-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 500

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
2019	data collection	Patients who access to Ophthalmological emergency service in 2019 definite periods
2020 Lockdown period	data collection	Patients who access to Ophthalmological emergency service during lockdown period in 2020

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
number of patients	1 year	evaluation of number of accesses

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Type of pathologies	1 year	Classification according to type of pathologies that causes the access to Emergency Room

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

ASST Sette Laghi; 🇮🇹 Varese, Italy