COVID-19: General considerations and anesthetic management

Abstract

Corona virus emerged as a surprise to the world, just three months back, and within the matter of only a few weeks engulfed whole of the globe in a state of despair and fear. From Wuhan to New York, the clinicians found them on the forefront of a world war like condition. Most of the healthcare systems found them ill prepared to deal with the ever-growing number of victims. As expected, the brunt of this catastrophe had to bear by the intensivists, anesthesiologists, pulmonologists and the nursing staff, besides almost every trade and discipline of the workers in a hospital. (Please select one option in the questions given below).