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Editorial
. 2020 Aug:107:104742.
doi: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2020.104742. Epub 2020 Apr 24.

Safe management of laryngectomized patients during the COVID-19 pandemic

Giampiero Parrinello  1 , Francesco Missale  2 , Claudio Sampieri  1 , Andrea Luigi Camillo Carobbio  1 , Giorgio Peretti  1
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Editorial

Safe management of laryngectomized patients during the COVID-19 pandemic

Giampiero Parrinello et al. Oral Oncol. 2020 Aug.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID19; HME; Head and neck cancer; Laryngectomy; SARS-CoV-2.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Scenarios regarding safe management of laryngectomized patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. A laryngectomized patient wearing all recommended PPE: surgical mask and a highly efficient filter with a heat and moisture exchanger (A). The clinical setting of prosthetic valve replacement adopting safe PPE, considering all patients as potentially COVID-19 infected (B). Trans-stomal administration of local spray anesthesia to reduce cough reflex before prosthetic valve replacement (C).
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