Cardiac anesthesia in the time of coronavirus disease 2019: an Egyptian experience using a case series | ||||
| The Egyptian Journal of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia | ||||
| Volume 15, Issue 1, July 2021 PDF (96.45 K) | ||||
| DOI: 10.4103/ejca.ejca_26_20 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Maged Salah; Ahmed Said | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 was first detected in Wuhan City, and from there it is become a pandemic and global health threat. In the time of pandemic, Cardiac surgery in nearly all cardiac centers all over the world was only confined to emergency cases. Dealing with a patient infected with this highly contagious disease is a great risk, and anesthesiologists are at a higher risk of becoming infected because of their close contact with infected patients, and when these patients are urgently in need for a lengthy difficult procedure, the risk will be at its maximum. The challenge of the anesthetic team while dealing with these patients is more difficult than we expected; so, the authors wanted to record their management and their experience with these patients. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Anesthetic management; cardiac surgery; Coronavirus; pandemic; Infection control | ||||
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