Department of Neurosurgery, Strasbourg University Hospital, France.

Irène Ollivier

The objective of a study was to relate the neurosurgical activity during a time of sanitary crisis such as experienced during the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic.

A monocentric retrospective analysis was made based on a prospectively gathered cohort of all patients requiring neurosurgical care between March 15th and May 12th, 2020. The local impact of SARS-CoV-2 was analyzed regarding the number of patients admitted to ICU.

160 patients could benefit from neurosurgical care with a wide-ranging profile of clinical and surgical activities performed during the study that seemed similar to last year's profile activity. Surgical indications were restricted to nondeferrable surgeries, leading to a drop in operative volume of 50%. Only 1,3% of patients required transfer to other units due to the impossibility of providing gold standard neurosurgical care in our center.

Despite the challenges represented by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, it was proven possible to assure routine neurosurgical continuity and provide high standards of neurosurgical care without compromising patients' access to the required treatments ¹⁾.