Pérez Lara FJ, Jimenez Martinez MB, Pozo Muñoz F, Fontalba Navas A, Garcia Cisneros R, Garcia Larrosa MJ, Garcia Delgado I, Callejon Gil MDM. COVID-19 pandemic, as experienced in the surgical service of a district hospital in Spain. World J Clin Cases 2021; 9(23): 6582-6590 [PMID: 34447807 DOI: 10.12998/wjcc.v9.i23.6582]
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Francisco Javier Pérez Lara, PhD, Doctor, Department of Surgery, Hopital de Antequera, Avda. Poeta Muñoz Rojas sn, Antequera 29200, Málaga, Spain. javinewyork@hotmail.com
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Virology
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Opinion Review
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World J Clin Cases. Aug 16, 2021; 9(23): 6582-6590 Published online Aug 16, 2021. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v9.i23.6582
COVID-19 pandemic, as experienced in the surgical service of a district hospital in Spain
Francisco Javier Pérez Lara, Maria Belen Jimenez Martinez, Francisco Pozo Muñoz, Andres Fontalba Navas, Rogelio Garcia Cisneros, Maria Jose Garcia Larrosa, Ignacio Garcia Delgado, Maria del Mar Callejon Gil
Francisco Javier Pérez Lara, Department of Surgery, Hopital de Antequera, Antequera 29200, Málaga, Spain
Maria Belen Jimenez Martinez, Francisco Pozo Muñoz, Andres Fontalba Navas, Rogelio Garcia Cisneros, Maria Jose Garcia Larrosa, Ignacio Garcia Delgado, Maria del Mar Callejon Gil, North Malaga Healthcare District, Hopital de Antequera, Antequera 29200, Málaga, Spain
Author contributions: Pérez Lara FJ made a substantial contribution to the concept and design; Pérez Lara FJ, Jimenez Martinez MB, Pozo Muñoz F, Fontalba Navas A, Garcia Cisneros R, Garcia Larrosa MJ, Garcia Delgado I and Callejon Gil MDM drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content and approved the version to be published.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Francisco Javier Pérez Lara, PhD, Doctor, Department of Surgery, Hopital de Antequera, Avda. Poeta Muñoz Rojas sn, Antequera 29200, Málaga, Spain. javinewyork@hotmail.com
Received: February 2, 2021 Peer-review started: February 2, 2021 First decision: March 16, 2021 Revised: March 28, 2021 Accepted: April 14, 2021 Article in press: April 14, 2021 Published online: August 16, 2021 Processing time: 183 Days and 20.4 Hours
Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019, which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and has since spread rapidly, evolving into a full-blown pandemic. We would like to report our experience after 1 year of this pandemic in the surgical service of a district hospital in Spain. There have been many changes (including new protocols) that our service and the hospital have undergone, to adapt to the new situation. We believe that this experience can be useful for other professionals who have lived and are living a similar situation.
Core Tip: The pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 virus has created a complex, unexpected and uncertain situation that has gravely affected health systems, in Spain and worldwide, provoking significant stress among healthcare personnel. This article describes the experiences and reactions of the surgery service in a district hospital in southern Spain during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, detailing the changes made to the daily routine in order to cope with this new situation.
