Open AccessCOVID-19: General considerations and anesthetic management
Author(s) -
Prateek Bansal,
Mayuri Gupta,
Ishrat Yousuf
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
anaesthesia, pain and intensive care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.17
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2220-5799
pISSN - 1607-8322
DOI - 10.35975/apic.v24i1.1236
Subject(s) - covid-19 , surprise , globe , pulmonologists , medicine , pandemic , health care , state (computer science) , medical emergency , nursing , intensive care medicine , psychology , political science , disease , virology , law , social psychology , pathology , algorithm , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , computer science , ophthalmology
Corona virus emerged as a surprise to the world, just three months back, and within the matter of only a few weeks engulfed whole of the globe in a state of despair and fear. From Wuhan to New York, the clinicians found them on the forefront of a world war like condition. Most of the healthcare systems found them ill prepared to deal with the ever-growing number of victims. As expected, the brunt of this catastrophe had to bear by the intensivists, anesthesiologists, pulmonologists and the nursing staff, besides almost every trade and discipline of the workers in a hospital. (Please select one option in the questions given below).