Covid and Regional Anaesthesia
Pratibha Deshmukh *
Department of Anaesthesia, Datta Meghe Medical College, Shalinitai Meghe Hospital and Research Centre, Nagpur, India.
Parag Sable
Department of Anaesthesia, Datta Meghe Medical College, Shalinitai Meghe Hospital and Research Centre, Nagpur, India.
Priyanka Deshmukh
Department of Anaesthesia, Datta Meghe Medical College, Shalinitai Meghe Hospital and Research Centre, Nagpur, India.
Vivek Chakole
Department of Anaesthesia, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Sawangi (Meghe), Wardha, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Currently we are at the peak of the second wave of pandemic. Availability of beds & oxygen is at nadir. The patients coming to us for surgery are the ones where surgery cannot wait. Mainly the load is obstetric. As a matter of COVID pandemic policy we are using regional anaesthesia unless contraindicated or the surgery demands general anaesthesia. The aim is to avoid/reduce aerosolization which is part & parcel of GA, despite the efforts to minimise it. The policy is to protect the anaesthesiologists, surgeons, OT staff & other patients as well. The present manuscript is to review the role of regional anaesthesia & its safe performance.
Keywords: Surgery, anaesthesia, regional, aerosol