Reduced presentations with fractures or orthopaedic infections to a major children's hospital during a national <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 elimination strategy

Abstract

A national COVID-19 elimination strategy, closing all but essential businesses, limiting public movement, physical distancing and focusing on hand hygiene, led to reduced presentations not only with fractures and soft tissue injuries but also musculoskeletal infections. Increased numbers of patients had procedural sedation for soft tissue injuries, but there was no significant change in the proportion of patients admitted for surgery.