Airway Management Considerations for Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Procedures in COVID-19 Era

Dig Dis Sci. 2020 Sep;65(9):2739-2742. doi: 10.1007/s10620-020-06478-x. Epub 2020 Jul 25.

V Thiruvenkatarajan^{1

2}, M Lorenzetti³, A Chung⁴, C K Wong⁵, J Currie⁵, M Wahba⁵, R M Van Wijk^{5

6}, M W Skinner⁷, M Sorbello⁸

¹ Department of Anesthesia, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, Adelaide, SA, 5011, Australia. venkatesan.thiruvenkatarajan@sa.gov.au.
² Discipline of Acute Care Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia. venkatesan.thiruvenkatarajan@sa.gov.au.
³ Department of Gastroenterology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.
⁴ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, Australia.
⁵ Department of Anesthesia, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, Adelaide, SA, 5011, Australia.
⁶ Discipline of Acute Care Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
⁷ Surgical and Perioperative Services, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Australia.
⁸ Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, AOU Policlinico San Marco University Hospital, Catania, Italy.

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Keywords: Airway management; Anesthesia; COVID-19; Endoscopy; SAD.

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