Open AccessCovid and Regional Anaesthesia
Author(s) -
Pratibha Deshmukh,
Parag Sable,
Pratibha Deshmukh,
Vivek Chakole
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of pharmaceutical research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2456-9119
DOI - 10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i37b32047
Subject(s) - covid-19 , regional anaesthesia , medicine , pandemic , anesthesia , general anaesthesia , nadir , disease , virology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , satellite , engineering , aerospace engineering
Currently we are at the peak of the second wave of pandemic. Availability of beds & oxygen is at nadir. The patients coming to us for surgery are the ones where surgery cannot wait. Mainly the load is obstetric. As a matter of COVID pandemic policy we are using regional anaesthesia unless contraindicated or the surgery demands general anaesthesia. The aim is to avoid/reduce aerosolization which is part & parcel of GA, despite the efforts to minimise it. The policy is to protect the anaesthesiologists, surgeons, OT staff & other patients as well. The present manuscript is to review the role of regional anaesthesia & its safe performance.