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OBJECTIVE: To determine whether patterns of trauma changed following the start of local lockdowns due to COVID-19. DESIGN: Multi-institutional retrospective study assessing patients presenting within 2 years prior to local lockdown due to COVID-19 and 1 year following lockdown inclusive. SETTING: Two university teaching hospitals and one private referral center in Australia. ANIMALS: Dogs and cats with a presenting complaint of known or suspected trauma. INTERVENTIONS: Patient signalment, date of presentation, trauma type, treatment interventions and patient outcome (survival to discharge, cardiopulmonary arrest, or euthanasia) were recorded in a web-based data capture system (REDCap). MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Three thousand one hundred eighty-nine patients (682 cats and 2,507 dogs) were included in the study. Overall trauma prevalence was 2.9% with pre-lockdown prevalence of 2.8% and post-lockdown prevalence of 3.1% (p < 0.001). Cats had higher rates of blunt trauma while penetrating trauma was more prevalent in dogs (p < 0.001). Juvenile patients were also more likely to have blunt trauma when compared to adult patients (p < 0.001). Patient age and sex characteristics did not differ when comparing the 2 time periods. Compared to pre-lockdown, blunt and penetrating trauma patterns changed post-lockdown in dogs and cats (p < 0.001 for both). Interventions were performed more frequently (p = 0.039) in the post-lockdown with surgical procedures having a significant increase (p = 0.015). Survival rates increased post-lockdown for both species (p < 0.001) with financially driven euthanasia being less common than in pre-lockdown for dogs (p = 0.02). CONCLUSIONS: Trauma patterns changed for cats and dogs in the post-lockdown period. Compared to pre-lockdown, trauma prevalence was higher with a decrease in mortality rate. No increase in juvenile patients was identified post-lockdown. A decrease in financially driven euthanasia and an increase in interventions suggest

The objective of HOWGOZIT is to provide an evaluation (HOW) of the progress (GOES) of pilot training toward meeting planned goals (IT). This paper discusses the organization and flow of data through the system. The concept was demonstrated in a scenario based upon the transition from the current Undergraduate Pilot Training System to the Navy Integrated Flight Training System. (Author)

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