Anesthetic Management in the Red Line of COVID-19

Authors

  • Víctor José Vasallo Comendeiro Hospital Militar Dr. Luis Díaz Soto. La Habana
  • Adel Castro Pozo Hospital Militar Dr. Luis Díaz Soto. La Habana
  • Yunierkis Riveron Acosta Hospital Militar Dr. Luis Díaz Soto. La Habana
  • Luis Manuel Gamboa Hospital Militar Dr. Luis Díaz Soto. La Habana

Keywords:

COVID-149, SARS-CoV-2, anesthesia in CVOID-19, COVID-19 epidemiology.

Abstract

Introduction: The results are presented regarding anesthesiological intervention of patients suspected of or confirmed with COVID-19 (the disease caused by the new coronavirus), treated in a clinical surgical hospital designated for the care of patients during the pandemic.

Objectives: To present the experiences regarding management of surgical patients affected by or suspected of infection by the new coronavirus (COVID-19).

Methods: The data of all the cases treated in Hospital Militar Central Dr. Luis Díaz Soto were collected, regardless if they were obstetric cases (by cesarean section) or corresponding to other specialties (surgery, orthopedics, urology).

Results: Forty-nine anesthetic-surgical interventions were performed, including thirteen caesarean sections, nine tracheostomies, seven appendectomies, the same number of salpingectomies, three hip fracture surgeries, and one amputation, one skull trepanation, two abscess drains and one necrectomy, one nephrostomy, one nephrectomy, one cure and two laparotomies. Cesarean sections were performed under neuraxial (epidural) anesthesia (thirteen single injections, accounting for 26.5% of cases). The rest of the procedures were performed under general orotracheal anesthesia (32 single injections, accounting for 65.30% of cases) and general intravenous anesthesia (4 single injections, accounting for 8.16% of cases). 38.77% (19) of cases were confirmed to COVID-19. Eighteen patients (36%) were discharged from the intensive care unit, twelve of which had been ventilated, a figure accounting for 24% of cases. There were thirty positive cases of COVID-19, accounting for 61.2%.

Conclusions: There were no anesthetic accidents, failures in the airway control nor perioperative deaths. There were no personnel infected with COVID-19. The high number of suspects constitute a potential risk of contagion.

 

Keywords: COVID-149; SARS-CoV-2; anesthesia in CVOID-19; COVID-19 epidemiology.

 

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Author Biography

Víctor José Vasallo Comendeiro, Hospital Militar Dr. Luis Díaz Soto. La Habana

Medico Anestesiologo

Doctor en Ciencias Medicas,

Especialista de 2do Grado en Anestesiologia y Reanimacion

Profesor Asistente,

Investigador Auxiliar

Diplomado de Gerencia en Ciencia e Innovación Tecnológica por el Instituto Técnico Militar José Marti (ITM) 

Published

2021-03-10

How to Cite

1.
Vasallo Comendeiro VJ, Castro Pozo A, Riveron Acosta Y, Gamboa LM. Anesthetic Management in the Red Line of COVID-19. Rev Cub Anest Rean [Internet]. 2021 Mar. 10 [cited 2025 Jan. 10];20(2). Available from: https://revanestesia.sld.cu/index.php/anestRean/article/view/748

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