Incidence of pediatric injury visits decreased while trauma surgeries remained stable during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland: a register-based study

• Ville M Mattila,
• Ilari Kuitunen,
• Ville Ponkilainen,
• Joonas Kuorikoski,
• Mikko Uimonen

Affiliations

Ville M Mattila

Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Ilari Kuitunen

Department of Pediatrics, Mikkeli Central Hospital, Mikkeli, Finland

Ville Ponkilainen

Department of Surgery, Central Finland Central Hospital, Jyvaskyla, Finland

Joonas Kuorikoski

Department of Surgery, Central Finland Central Hospital, Jyvaskyla, Finland

Mikko Uimonen

Department of Surgery, Central Finland Central Hospital, Jyvaskyla, Finland