Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has had an influence on the number of patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with surgical conditions.
Aim: To evaluate the number of patients presenting with acute appendicitis (AA) and the percentage of complicated appendicitis before and after the COVID-19 disease outbreak.
Material and methods: This is a retrospective study based on the data of all patients presenting with AA to the ED of a tertiary COVID referral university hospital in Greece. We analysed the number of patients treated with AA, patient characteristics, and the proportion of patients with complicated appendicitis, and we compared the 2 groups of patients treated 12 months before and 12 months after COVID-19 onset in Greece.
Results: A total of 152 patients were included in this study. There was a significant decrease in the number of patients presenting with AA after COVID-19 onset in Greece. Respectively, 91 and 61 patients were subjected to appendectomy 12 months before and after COVID-19 onset. Comparing the 2 groups of patients, there was a statistically significant increase in the operation time (p = 0.01) after COVID-19 onset, whereas the percentage of complicated appendicitis, the duration of symptoms before presenting to the ED (< 24 h, > 24 h), and the type of operation (laparoscopic, open, converted) did not differ significantly between the 2 groups of patients.
Conclusions: The number of patients presenting to the ED with AA decreased after COVID-19 onset, most likely because patients hesitated to seek help in a COVID-19 referral hospital.
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{"title":"MENZIES, Nicholas K. Ordering the myriad things: from traditional knowledge to scientific botany in China","authors":"Jiang Che","doi":"10.3366/anh.2023.0882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2023.0882","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49106,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Natural History","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139328633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MOSS, Stephen. Ten birds that changed the world","authors":"W. Noblett","doi":"10.3366/anh.2023.0883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2023.0883","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49106,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Natural History","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139329294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
When transporting specimens, both living and preserved, naturalists often took great care when deciding how best to ship them. One of the most important shipping methods was in wooden barrels. In the eighteenth century, many naturalists, including Joseph Banks, John Ellis, and René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, advocated the use of, or used, barrels to transport specimens when long voyages often caused specimens to become damaged or destroyed. This paper will investigate the use of wooden barrels by naturalists and detail how such a ubiquitous object proved to be exceptionally important in the history of natural history.
{"title":"Wooden barrels for transporting and preserving natural history specimens in the eighteenth century","authors":"Guy M. Sechrist","doi":"10.3366/anh.2023.0864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2023.0864","url":null,"abstract":"When transporting specimens, both living and preserved, naturalists often took great care when deciding how best to ship them. One of the most important shipping methods was in wooden barrels. In the eighteenth century, many naturalists, including Joseph Banks, John Ellis, and René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, advocated the use of, or used, barrels to transport specimens when long voyages often caused specimens to become damaged or destroyed. This paper will investigate the use of wooden barrels by naturalists and detail how such a ubiquitous object proved to be exceptionally important in the history of natural history.","PeriodicalId":49106,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Natural History","volume":"254 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139329700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BORAN, Elizabethanne, NELSON, E. Charles and LAWLOR, Emer (editors). Botany and gardens in early modern Ireland","authors":"Mary Davies","doi":"10.3366/anh.2023.0877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2023.0877","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49106,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Natural History","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139325499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
René-Edouard Claparède was a ground-breaking Swiss naturalist specializing primarily in invertebrate embryology and the study of Protista and Annelida. While a student in Berlin he was encouraged by Christian Ehrenberg to use the latest microscopes and became renowned as a skilful observer and illustrator of the smallest organisms then known and of tiny anatomical details. A popular lecturer in zoology and comparative anatomy in his home town of Geneva, he nonetheless encountered difficulties in that city, still considered the “Protestant Rome”, due to his strong support for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. His involvement in the first French translation of On the origin of species ( Darwin 1862 ) proved problematic too, although his remark, “It is better to be an improved ape than a degenerate Adam,” became a catchphrase in discussions of this contentious debate. Premature death meant that Claparède's work was quickly surpassed in many areas, but the diversity of his many publications, given here in the most complete bibliography compiled to date, is a testament to a widely respected, although overshadowed, naturalist.
{"title":"René-Edouard Claparède (1832–1871), Genevan naturalist and early adopter of Darwin's theory of evolution","authors":"J. Hollier, A. Hollier","doi":"10.3366/anh.2023.0868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2023.0868","url":null,"abstract":"René-Edouard Claparède was a ground-breaking Swiss naturalist specializing primarily in invertebrate embryology and the study of Protista and Annelida. While a student in Berlin he was encouraged by Christian Ehrenberg to use the latest microscopes and became renowned as a skilful observer and illustrator of the smallest organisms then known and of tiny anatomical details. A popular lecturer in zoology and comparative anatomy in his home town of Geneva, he nonetheless encountered difficulties in that city, still considered the “Protestant Rome”, due to his strong support for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. His involvement in the first French translation of On the origin of species ( Darwin 1862 ) proved problematic too, although his remark, “It is better to be an improved ape than a degenerate Adam,” became a catchphrase in discussions of this contentious debate. Premature death meant that Claparède's work was quickly surpassed in many areas, but the diversity of his many publications, given here in the most complete bibliography compiled to date, is a testament to a widely respected, although overshadowed, naturalist.","PeriodicalId":49106,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Natural History","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139331033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FINNEGAN, Diarmid A. The voice of science: British scientists of the lecture circuit in Gilded Age America","authors":"Nathan Smith","doi":"10.3366/anh.2023.0880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2023.0880","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49106,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Natural History","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139328422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FARMER, Jared. Elderflora. A modern history of ancient trees","authors":"E. Nelson","doi":"10.3366/anh.2023.0879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2023.0879","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49106,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Natural History","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139329024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Museum Boltenianum … pars prima continens animalia in spiritu vini adservata … (c.1797, Hamburg): bibliographic and nomenclatural notes","authors":"G. C. Kronenberg","doi":"10.3366/anh.2023.0870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2023.0870","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49106,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Natural History","volume":"306 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139329406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"APESTEGUIA, Sebastián, ALVAREZ, Stella Maris and GIACCHINO, Adrián (editors). Bonaparte, el amo de los dinosaurios","authors":"Sergio Zagier","doi":"10.3366/anh.2023.0873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2023.0873","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49106,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Natural History","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139331199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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