Head and neck surgery during COVID-19

Digpal Dharkar; Laxmi Narayan Namdev; Sonia Moses; Ravi Soni; Suresh Verma

doi:10.1007/s12070-021-02401-6

Head and neck surgery during COVID-19

Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2022 Oct;74(Suppl 2):2866-2872. doi: 10.1007/s12070-021-02401-6. Epub 2021 Feb 1.

Authors

Digpal Dharkar¹, Laxmi Narayan Namdev², Sonia Moses², Ravi Soni³, Suresh Verma³

Affiliations

¹ Indian Institute Of Head & Neck Oncology, Indore Cancer Foundation,, 779- D, Rajtilak, Manishpuri, Saket Extension, Indore, 452018 India.
² Surgeon Volunteer Indian Institute of Head and Neck Oncology, Indore Cancer Foundation, Indore, India.
³ Indian Institute of Head and Neck Oncology, Indore Cancer Foundation, Indore, India.

Abstract

Thirty-two Head and Neck cancer patients were operated by surgical team of the Indian Institute of Head and Neck Oncology (IIHNO) in a period ranging from May 2020 to the first week of December 2020. Surgical procedures ranged from surgery for tongue cancer, resection of cancers of the oral mucosa/cheek (with or without reconstruction), as well as surgery for paranasal cancers and thyroid cancers, with an average duration of 3 h for the procedures. This article reviews this experience during the peak of covid pandemic regarding the approaches adopted by the team of the IIHNO, a flagship project of the Indore Cancer Foundation, a public charitable trust.

Keywords: Covid 19; Head and neck oncology; Head and neck surgery.