Indian Journal of Anaesthesia (Jan 2020)

Society of Onco-Anesthesia and Perioperative Care (SOAPC) advisory regarding perioperative management of onco-surgeries during COVID-19 pandemic

  • Sohan Lal Solanki,
  • Raghu S Thota,
  • Rakesh Garg,
  • Anjali A Pingle,
  • Jyotsna Goswami,
  • Namrata Ranganath,
  • Sudipta Mukherjee,
  • Sameer Gupta,
  • Shraddha Patkar,
  • Rajesh H Chikkalingegowda,
  • Tarun Jindal,
  • Mukur D Ray,
  • Sanjay Muralidhar Upadhye,
  • Jigeeshu V Divatia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/ija.IJA_447_20
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 64, no. 14
pp. 97 – 102

Abstract

Read online

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has gripped the world and is evolving day by day with deaths every hour. Being immunocompromised, cancer patients are more susceptible to contract the infection. Onco-surgeries on such immunocompromised patients have an increased risk of infection of COVID-19 to patients and health care workers. The society of Onco-Anesthesia and Perioperative Care (SOAPC) thereby came out with an advisory for safe perioperative management of cancer surgery during this challenging time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords