Open AccessCardiothoracic surgery during COVID-19: Our experience with different strategies
Author(s) -
Sarju Ralhan,
Rajesh Arya,
Rama Gupta,
Gurpreet Singh Wander,
Rajiv Kumar Gupta,
V. Gupta,
Suhani Bagga,
Bishav Mohan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
annals of cardiac anaesthesia/annals of cardiac anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 0974-5181
pISSN - 0971-9784
DOI - 10.4103/aca.aca_166_20
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , retrospective cohort study , cardiothoracic surgery , pandemic , surgery , mann–whitney u test , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
An acute respiratory disease (COVID-19), caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2,), has been declared a pandemic by WHO. A surgery on COVID-19 patients not only involves a risk of spread of the disease but also there is a serious concern for the patient's surgical outcomes and resources requirement.