1. Thoracic Anesthesia during the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Infection Pandemic: 2021 Updated Recommendations for Airway Management by the EACTAIC Thoracic Subspecialty Committee
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Radu Stoica, Maria-Jose Jiménez, Mohamed R. El Tahan, Ben Shelley, Edmond Cohen, Steffen Rex, Balazs Paloczi, Manuel Granell Gil, Federico Piccioni, Guido Di Gregorio, Nandor Marczin, Waheedullah Karzai, Marc-Joseph Licker, Gianluca Paternoster, Carmen Unzueta, Chirojit Mukherjee, Mert Şentürk, Ahmed Salaheldin Morsy, Fabio Guarracino, Massimiliano Sorbello, Davud Yapici, Johan Bence MBChB, J.M.J. Mourisse, Laszlo L Szegedi, Vojislava Neskovic, Paolo Pelosi, Patrick Wouters, Izumi Kawagoe, Caroline Vanpeteghem, Tamás Végh, A. Brunelli, Ricard Navarro-Ripoll, and Mojca Drnvsek-Globoikar
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Critical Care ,medicine.medical_treatment ,coronavirus ,Thoracic anesthesia ,Subspecialty ,Healthcare improvement science Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 18] ,Special Article ,Anesthesiology ,Intensive care ,Pandemic ,medicine ,Humans ,Anesthesia ,Lung cancer ,Pandemics ,business.industry ,SARS-CoV-2 ,COVID-19 ,medicine.disease ,Infectious period ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,lung separation ,personal protective equipment ,Airway management ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business - Abstract
Contains fulltext : 244115.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access) The novel coronavirus pandemic has radically changed the landscape of normal surgical practice. Lifesaving cancer surgery, however, remains a clinical priority, and there is an increasing need to fully define the optimal oncologic management of patients with varying stages of lung cancer, allowing prioritization of which thoracic procedures should be performed in the current era. Healthcare providers and managers should not ignore the risk of a bimodal peak of mortality in patients with lung cancer; an imminent spike due to mortality from acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection, and a secondary peak reflecting an excess of cancer-related mortality among patients whose treatments were deemed less urgent, delayed, or cancelled. The European Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Thoracic Anesthesia Subspecialty group has considered these challenges and developed an updated set of expert recommendations concerning the infectious period, timing of surgery, vaccination, preoperative screening and evaluation, airway management, and ventilation of thoracic surgical patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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