The Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden: Prolonged and unevenly distributed effects on the volume of pediatric anesthesia and surgery demonstrated by data from the Swedish Perioperative Register

• Sixten Melander ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sixten.melander@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, Section of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7299-5414

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• Gunnar Enlund,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Helene Engstrand Lilja,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1998-5212

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• Peter Frykholm

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, Section of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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