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
| 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? | Open answer |