The Impact of COVID-19 and Associated Social Restrictions on Violence Related Trauma: Experience From an Urban Trauma Center

During the Covid 19 pandemic social policies were implemented to limit spread of disease. With the implementation of these policies, we observed a change in pattern of trauma encounters. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of Covid 19 related social policies on trauma volume and injury mechanism at our urban trauma center.

Source: Journal of the American College of Surgeons - October 22, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Amrusha Musunuru, Mathangi A. Chandramouli, Denisa Pavlickova, Mazhar Khalil, Patricia O'Neill, Sukrit Suresh Tags: Trauma, Burn, and Critical Care Source Type: research