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. 2020 May;64(Suppl 2):S97-S102.
doi: 10.4103/ija.IJA_447_20. Epub 2020 May 23.

Society of Onco-Anesthesia and Perioperative Care (SOAPC) advisory regarding perioperative management of onco-surgeries during COVID-19 pandemic

Sohan Lal Solanki  1 , Raghu S Thota  1 , Rakesh Garg  2 , Anjali A Pingle  3 , Jyotsna Goswami  4 , Namrata Ranganath  5 , Sudipta Mukherjee  4 , Sameer Gupta  6 , Shraddha Patkar  7 , Rajesh H Chikkalingegowda  8 , Tarun Jindal  9 , Mukur D Ray  10 , Sanjay Muralidhar Upadhye  11 , Jigeeshu V Divatia  1
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Society of Onco-Anesthesia and Perioperative Care (SOAPC) advisory regarding perioperative management of onco-surgeries during COVID-19 pandemic

Sohan Lal Solanki et al. Indian J Anaesth. 2020 May.

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has gripped the world and is evolving day by day with deaths every hour. Being immunocompromised, cancer patients are more susceptible to contract the infection. Onco-surgeries on such immunocompromised patients have an increased risk of infection of COVID-19 to patients and health care workers. The society of Onco-Anesthesia and Perioperative Care (SOAPC) thereby came out with an advisory for safe perioperative management of cancer surgery during this challenging time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; immunocompromised host; neoplasms; pandemics; perioperative care.

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