COVID-19 Infection Diagnosis Incidentally in Orthopedic Trauma Patients: Report of Six Cases

Omidian, Mohammad Mehdi; Barati, Hasan; Dehkhoda, Farshid; Najahi, Alireza; Nikzad, Negar; Soroureddin, Zahra

doi:10.30491/tm.2020.233786.1131

COVID-19 Infection Diagnosis Incidentally in Orthopedic Trauma Patients: Report of Six Cases

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Mohammad Mehdi Omidian ¹

Hasan Barati ¹

Farshid Dehkhoda ¹

Alireza Najahi ¹

Negar Nikzad ²

Zahra Soroureddin ²

¹ Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran

² School of medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran

10.30491/tm.2020.233786.1131

Abstract

The outbreak of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) began in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China and has spread worldwide rapidly. In this case series study, we evaluated orthopedic patients who referred to the orthopedic trauma ward of Imam Hossein Hospital, Tehran, Iran, as a central hospital for both orthopedic trauma and COVID-19 patients from the beginning of the outbreak of COVID-19 in Iran. We incidentally detected six cases of COVID-19 infection during work-up for trauma management. These patients were managed and treated for both COVID-19 infection and trauma.

Keywords

Coronavirus pandemic

COVID-19

Orthopedic trauma surgery