A Intraoperative Complication Rate of Blinding Cataract Patients who have undergone surgery are overdue 30 days during Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Epidemic
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Background: World Health Organization(WHO) predicted that in 2020, the number of Blinding Patients around the world up to 76 million people. These numbers are found in people who have age more than 50 years old and the main cause is cataracts, the number of cataracts was 15.2 million people, but the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2019 have to decrease the number of patients in surgery. The researcher focused on studying Intraoperative Complications according to the long waiting time for surgery and applying the result of this study to patient care and providing the service guideline once an emergency case in the future.
Objective: To study the comparison of Intraoperative Complications Rate of Blinding Cataract Patients who have undergone surgery within 30 days and are overdue 30 days.
Methods: This research was a retrospective cross-sectional analytic study of blinding cataract patients has undergone surgery and the intraoperative complication from 1st January 2020 to 31st January 2022, the data was 388 eyes at Debaratana Nakhonratsima Hospital by using Descriptive Statistics and a chi-square test.
Results: Of the 388 eye patients, the most age had undergone surgery was 61-70 years old (44.1 percent), and the patients had a visual loss for 12 months before getting into the hospital 63.1 percent. Intraoperative Complications were found in 13 eyes(3.4 percent). The patients who have undergone surgery within 30 days at 2.8% and those who have undergone overdue 30 days at 4.0%. Intraoperative Complications have been found in 2 groups with no difference (P=0.495).
Conclusions: When the Public Health Emergency occurred, the Blinding Cataract Patients were able to wait for surgery for over 30 days after being investigated and no effect on the Intraoperative Complications in all types of cataracts.
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