Postoperative outcomes in surgical COVID-19 patients: a multicenter cohort study

BMC Anesthesiology

Table 3 Number of surgical procedures and operating room utilization at each centre

Center	COVID-19 cases	Total number of surgical procedures^a	% of COVID-19 cases	Mean time from OR entry to exit per case^b	PACU care in the OR^c	Total number of surgical procedures	Mean time from OR entry to exit^b
	March 13 to June 19, 2020					March 13 to June 19, 2019
1	8	3960	0.20%	02:43	Yes^d	7460	02:04
2	10	3153	0.32%	01:33	Yes	6586	01:24
3	1	2385	0.04%	NA	No	2590	NA
4	18	947	1.90%	02:53	Yes	2471	02:16
5	2	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
6	0	601	NA	04:30	Yes	540	04:19
7	1	2637	0.04%	02:45	No	5555	02:11
8	2	7948	0.03%	01:36	Yes	17,847	01:54
9	2	985	0.20%	03:23	Yes	1437	03:16
TOTAL	44	22,616	0.19%^e	2:11^f	–	44,486	1:59^e

N.B. Cleaning and preparation data was missing for most centres. Data was produced from operating room administrative systems, thereby precluding producing any dispersion statistics
Abbreviations: OR Operating room, PACU Post-Anesthesia Care Unit, NA Not available
^a Number of surgical cases includes all patients who underwent a surgical intervention, including patients with a laboratory confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection
^b Expressed as hours:minutes
^c PACU care provided in the OR for all COVID-19 confirmed, suspected or high-risk patients
^d PACU care provided in the OR for all COVID-19 confirmed or suspected and during the first 25 min after extubation for high-risk patients
^e The 2 patients from centre #5 were excluded from the numerator
^f Weighted mean

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