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cord-275503-rxjilkff	Ponkilainen, Ville	The effect of nationwide lockdown and societal restrictions due to COVID‐19 on emergency and urgent surgeries	2020-08-07		.txt	text/plain	489	33	58	To date, no studies have been conducted on how the pandemic, the resultant social restrictions, and the cancelling of elective operations in hospitals has affected the rate of emergency surgeries. The data for this retrospective study was collected from three Finnish The weekly mean incidence of emergency and urgent surgery remained stable after the announcement of the national lockdown (Fig. 1A) . The number of the most common operation, laparoscopic appendicectomy, decreased by 32 per cent (from 75 to 51, p = 0⋅03) three weeks before the lockdown. However, the decrease was followed by a notable rebound (64 per cent, p = 0⋅01) from 37 to 61 operations per three weeks. A notable rebound in the rate of appendicectomies and hip fracture operations was seenthree weeks after the lockdown started. The general mobility of the population measured by the amount of traffic on the main roads did not result in a decreased rate in emergency or urgent surgery.	./cache/cord-275503-rxjilkff.txt	./txt/cord-275503-rxjilkff.txt