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cord-267287-qodj254z	Pintado, Juan F.	How COVID-19 has affected Emergent Visits to a Latin-American Trauma Department: Experience at a Peruvian National Trauma Referral Center	2020-11-03		.txt	text/plain	3661	180	49	The current study's overall aim was to examine the impact of the current COVID-19 outbreak on the number of non-COVID-related patient presentations to a major national emergency traumatology/orthopedics referral center in Latin America. Numbers of non-follow-up patients presenting to the traumatology/ orthopedics service were counted and compared between January through April 2019 and January through April 2020; and between the month immediately prior to the Peruvian government's implementation of national lock-down measures (Feb 16—Mar 15; Period 1) and the month immediately following (Mar 16—Apr 15; Period 2). Our institute, which performs more trauma and orthopedic surgeries than any other center in Peru [6] , was declared a national referral center for patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 during the pandemic. On the other hand, strengths include it being the first to report on the impact of the present global crisis on Latin-American traumatology and orthopedic services, and that our institution is our country's largest tertiary referral center for trauma cases within the Peruvian National Health Service.	./cache/cord-267287-qodj254z.txt	./txt/cord-267287-qodj254z.txt