Acute subdural empyema in the young COVID-19 patient- A case report | Zendy

Kaisar Haroon | Zendy; Md Arif Reza | Zendy; Tania Taher | Zendy; Md Shafiul Alam | Zendy; Rakib Ul Haque | Zendy; Md Farhad Ahmed | Zendy; Sk Sader Hossain | Zendy

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Acute subdural empyema in the young COVID-19 patient- A case report

Author(s) -

Kaisar Haroon,

Md Arif Reza,

Tania Taher,

Md Shafiul Alam,

Rakib Ul Haque,

Md Farhad Ahmed,

Sk Sader Hossain

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

bangladesh journal of neurosurgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2664-7915

pISSN - 2411-6637

DOI - 10.3329/bjns.v10i2.53776

Subject(s) - subdural empyema , medicine , empyema , neurosurgery , covid-19 , surgery , general surgery , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology

Acute subdural empyema is a surgical emergency. It is life threatening for the patient. It has to be evacuated as soon it is diagnosed. But subdural empyema in a COVID 19 patient is uncommon. Its management put the surgical team to a new dilemma. On one side the patient’s life was at risk and on the other side the whole surgical team might get infected.In this case report, we describe such a case which saved the patient’s life at same time many doctors, nurses and OT attendants became infected. Abbrevaitions: OPD- Out patient department, COVID 19-Corona Virus Disease 2019, NINS- National Institute of Neurosciences, RT-PCR- Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. SDE- Subdural empyema, PNS- para nasal sinuses Bang. J Neurosurgery 2021; 10(2): 206-209

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