Abstract

The current worldwide medical challenge is not only the therapy of COVID-19, but also the complications it creates in medical practice. The ongoing pandemics brings not only the issue of primary treatment of COVID-19 in intensive care, but also the need to provide urgent surgical procedures for positively tested patients.

The present situation causes severe restrictions or even complete cancelling of elected surgeries. However, emergency surgeries cannot be postponed and are undergone by patients with active COVID-19 disease, often with non-specific respiratory symptoms, unclear medical history or with asymptomatic positivity. At the same time, the issue of long-COVID patients gains prominence. These are often scheduled to undergo operations after recovering from the acute phase of the disease. Pandemic situation highlights the benefits of using regional anesthesia, and the undeniable benefits of its techniques for the patients as well as for the medical staff in the perioperative period. The authors summarized their views, findings and practical experience from two hospitals in the Central European region (Ref. 42). Text v PDF www.lekarskyobzor.sk.

KEY WORDS: regional anaesthesia, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, prevention, perioperative management.

Lek Obz 2022; 71 (5): 196-202

Ivan GRGÁČ 1,2, Jakub HLÁSNY 3, Helmut TRIMMEL 1, Michal VENGLARČÍK 3, Eliška KUBÍKOVÁ 2

1 Abteilung für Anästhesie, Notfall- und Allgemeine Intensivmedizin, Landesklinikum Wiener Neustadt, Rakúsko
2 Anatomický ústav LF UK, Bratislava, prednostka doc. MUDr. E. Kubíková, PhD.
3 II. klinika anestéziológie a intenzívnej medicíny SZU, FNsP F.D. Roosevelta, Banská Bystrica

Cite:
GRGÁČ I., HLÁSNY J., TRIMMEL H., VENGLARČÍK M., KUBÍKOVÁ E.: Regional anesthesia and the SARS-CoV2 pandemy. Lek Obz 2022; 71 (5): 196-202