Sanchita Kalita, Biswajit Gogoi, Gautam Khaund, Vivek Agarwal, Partha Pratim Borah, Anup Dutta, Daisy Gogoi
Otorhinolaryngologists, particularly dealing with airway cases, are subjected to highest risk of COVID 19 aerosolisation, self infection and transmission. Moreover, airway cases, which mostly present as emergency, cannot be deferred. Being a tertiary airway centre and having received a number of airway cases, most of them requiring prompt surgical intervention, our airway surgery and anaesthesiology team had to work in conjunction to adapt and readapt the practice over the past few months, striving to achieve effective airway surgery protocols, to minimize exposure and prevent transmission of COVID 19...
January 7, 2021: Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery