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

Sohan Lal Solanki; Raghu S Thota; Rakesh Garg; Anjali A Pingle; Jyotsna Goswami; Namrata Ranganath; Sudipta Mukherjee; Sameer Gupta; Shraddha Patkar; Rajesh H Chikkalingegowda; Tarun Jindal; Mukur D Ray; Sanjay Muralidhar Upadhye; Jigeeshu V Divatia

doi:10.4103/ija.IJA_447_20

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

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

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
² Department of Onco-Anaesthesiology and Palliative Medicine, Dr BRAIRCH, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
³ Department of PD Hinduja Hospital and MRC, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
⁴ Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
⁵ Department of Anesthesia and Pain Relief, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
⁶ Department of Surgical Oncology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
⁷ Department of Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
⁸ Consultant Anaesthesiology, HCG Hospitals, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
⁹ Department of Uro-Oncology, Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
¹⁰ Surgical Oncology, Dr BRAIRCH, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
¹¹ Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Asian Cancer Institutes, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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.