Society of Onco-Anesthesia and Perioperative Care (SOAPC) advisory regarding perioperative management of onco-surgeries during COVID-19 pandemic
RaghuS Thota, SohanLal Solanki, Rakesh Garg, Anjali A Pingle, Jyotsna Goswami, Namrata Ranganath, Sudipta Kumer Mukherjee, Sameer Gupta, Shraddha Patkar, Rajesh Holalu Chikkalingegowda, Tarun Jindal, M. D. Ray, Sanjay Muralidhar Upadhye, Jigeeshu V. Divatia
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.