The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Workload of an Adult Major Trauma Centre in Northern Ireland.

Introduction: Based in Belfast, the Royal Victoria Hospital is the only Major Trauma Centre in Northern Ireland. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on 23rd March 2020, Northern Ireland was placed into 'lockdown' with the majority of the population advised to "stay at home". The objective of this paper is to identify what effect the lockdown restrictions had on the workload of the Major Trauma Service at the Royal Victoria Hospital.

Symptoms, spirometry, exhaled nitric oxide, and asthma exacerbations in clinical practice.

Background: Patient symptoms, spirometry measurements, exacerbation rates, and exhaled nitric oxide (FE(NO)) levels have all been used to quantify asthma severity.

Objective: To determine the relationships among these disease surrogates in clinical practice.

Methods: Data were collected from 5 primary care asthma clinics on patient symptoms, reliever use, spirometry measurements, maintenance pharmacotherapy, disease severity (British Thoracic Society treatment step), and FE(NO) level.