Comparison to 2019 activity
The retrospective search of patients admissions retrieved 6454 subjects
between March 18 and May 5, 2019 (table 4). There was therefore a drop
in overall activity of 91.1%. When restricting the search to emergency
patients, 301 patients had presented to our ENT clinic in emergency over
the same period of time. The drop in emergency activity was of 31.56 %
in 2020. The drop in surgical activity was of 81.92 % in 2020. Surgical
mortality rate was 0.82% in 2019 for the same period, and 1.58% when
restricted to emergency cases and head and neck cancer cases (4.55%
during the 2020 lockdown).
DISCUSSION