• Dinu Vermeşan, Adrian Todor, Diana Andrei, Marius Niculescu, Emanuela Tudorache, and Horia Haragus.
• Department of Orthopedics and Trauma, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Eftimie Murgu Square No 2, 300041 Timisoara, Romania.
• Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Feb 23; 18 (4).

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has put an enormous burden on healthcare systems. As a direct consequence, many elective procedures were cancelled and available resources were relocated to emergencies and COVID-19 patients. We aimed to analyze the impact on orthopedic surgery in Romania. We performed a retrospective analysis of orthopedics and trauma cases admitted over the first six months of 2019 and 2020 in three representative clinics. In total, there were 1900 patients: 1241 from Timisoara, 216 from Cluj-Napoca, and 443 from Bucharest. In April, activity for all cases in the regional trauma center dropped to 23.8% and stopped in the other two. No arthroscopies or elective joint replacements were performed in April. By June, hospital admissions resumed for trauma cases while arthroscopies and joint replacements still lagged behind.

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