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).
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