COVID-19 Pandemic Morbidity and Mortality Caused to Non-COVID Spine Inpatients at a Level One Trauma Centre: Case Report

Review Data

Purpose and Significance of Study: This report comprises two cases of inpatients requiring non-elective spine surgery, which were interrupted owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. It also lays out useful suggestions on the management of similar situations amidst the pandemic.

Fit with Scope of Journal: The manuscript is of high interest for the journal American Journal of Surgical Case Reports.

The manuscript is well-written. A few very minor errors (already corrected in the galley proof) are listed below –

 

·       A common error is omission or overuse of “,”, e.g., omission after “China” in the 1^st sentence of Background or after “uneventfully” in the 9^th sentence of Case presentation 1, and overuse after “fracture” in the 1st sentence of Case presentation 2, after “exposure” in the 2^nd sentence of the 1^st paragraph in the Discussion.

In the Abstract –

  Under Case presentation –

·       “new onset” must be hyphenated.

In the Case presentation 1 –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “less than 24-hr history” must be replaced with “less-than-24-hour history”.

·       In the 3^rd sentence, “the” must be inserted before “ASIA”.

In the Discussion –

  In the 2^nd paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “extremities” must be replaced with “lower extremity”.

  In the 4^th paragraph –

·       In the 5^th sentence, “the” must be inserted before “hospital”, and “standard of care” must be put within “”.

·       In the last sentence, “an” before “open” must be removed.

In the Conclusion –

·       In the last sentence, “a” before “late” must be removed.

Author Info

Danielle Shafiepour Humaid Al Farii Michael Weber Salim Al Rawahi

Corresponding Author

Humaid Al Farii
Department of Orthopaedic Oncology, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Article Info

Article Type

Case Report

Publication history

Received: Wed 29, Apr 2020
Accepted: Thu 14, May 2020
Published: Fri 22, May 2020

Copyright

© 2023 Humaid Al Farii. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.AJSCR.2020.02.06