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Table 1 Assignment of the 17-item questionnaire to answers of the survey and results of the manuscript. OR = operating room. ICU = intensive care unit

From: Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on emergency surgery services—a multi-national survey among WSES members

Figure

Item

Answer

Fig. 1

What is your current position?

- Resident

- Board-certified surgeon

- Senior consultant

- Head of the department

Fig. 2

a: In general, does your hospital treat COVID-19 patients?

- Yes

- No

b: Have you continued to treat surgical emergency patients during the SARS-Co-2 pandemic?

- Yes

- No

Fig. 3

Has the SARS-Co-2 pandemic had any impact on the treatment of surgical emergency patients?

- No impact

- Weak impact

- Moderate impact

- Strong impact

- Very strong impact

Fig. 4

Has there been a decrease in the number of surgical emergency patients entering your hospital?

- Yes

- No

If so, to what degree?

- < 10%

- 10–20%

- 21–40%

- 41–60%

- 61–80%

- 81–100%

Fig. 5

a: Has there been a delay in the time from entering the hospital (e.g. with an intestinal perforation) to the diagnosis (“time-to-diagnosis”)?

- Yes

- No

If so, please, estimate the delay, e.g. from entering the hospital until the timepoint of CT-scan.

- < 0.5 h

- 0.5–1 h

- 1–2 h

- 2–3 h

- > 3 h

b: Has there been a delay in the time-from-diagnosis (e.g. of an intestinal perforation in the CT-scan) to the beginning of surgical intervention (“time-to-intervention”)?

- Yes

- No

If so, to which degree? The time-to-intervention was

- < 0.5 h longer

- 1–2 h longer

- 2–3 h longer

- > 3 h longer

Fig. 6

What, do you think, are the most important factors, leading to an enlarged time-to-intervention?

- Lack of ICU capacity

- Less OR capacity

- Lack of OR staff

- Worse in-hospital logistics (e.g. transport of patients, closed normal wards, etc.)

Fig. 7

Has there been the need of a triage of emergency patients due to limited capacities during the COVID-19 pandemic?

- Yes

- No

Fig. 8

Did you observe an increased relative number of perforated appendicitis during the COVID-19-pandemic?

- Yes

- No

Did you observe an increased relative number of perforated diverticulitis during the COVID-19-pandemic?

- Yes

- No

Did you observe an increased relative number of severe septic cholecystitis during the COVID-19-pandemic?

- Yes

- No

Table 2

Did you perform emergency surgery in patients infected with COVID-19?

- Yes

- No

Which emergency operation did you perform in patients with COVID-19?

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