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Trauma Trends in COVID - 19 Pandemic at level 1 Trauma Center in India - An Observational Study

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Ayush Srivastava1*, Anisha Anshu2 , Tej Prakash Sinha3 , Sanjeev Bhoi4

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COVID-19 has pushed Government of India to take various public health measures for curtailing transmission of infection. It included imposition of total lockdown on all non-essential services across the country when number of cases started increasing during the first wave. The first lockdown lasted from March 25th to may 31st 2020, following which a period of gradual unlocking began. Thereafter during the second wave of the COVID pandemic in India, lockdowns of varying intensities were imposed at different intervals by individual states. Near complete lockdown was implemented in the National Capital from April 19th 2021 to 31st May 2021, in response to a sharp rise in the number of cases. These lockdowns along with the pandemic itself has had a major impact on the healthcare system, including trauma care. There are limited number of studies specifically from India, which have examined the effect of these restrictions on trauma admissions.

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