18. Impact of COVID Pressures on Delays to Theatre of Mandibular Fractures. A Service Evaluation of Mandibular Fracture Admissions at a UK Tertiary Maxillofacial Unit and Major Trauma Centre

Abstract

Dedicated OMFS trauma theatre sessions were suspended through the initial lockdown through a combination of reassigned resources, and extreme reduction in trauma cases. These sessions were not restarted when lock-down ended because of ongoing COVID pressures and access to elective OMFS operating was not possible because these theatres were ‘silver’.