• Mert Şentürk, Mohamed R El Tahan, Ben Shelley, Laszlo L Szegedi, Federico Piccioni, Marc-Joseph Licker, Waheedullah Karzai, GilManuel GranellMGAnesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Valencia, Spain., Vojislava Neskovic, Caroline Vanpeteghem, Paolo Pelosi, Edmond Cohen, Massimiliano Sorbello, Johan Bence MBChB, Radu Stoica, Jo Mourisse, Alex Brunelli, Maria-José Jimenez, Drnovsek GlobokarMojcaMDepartment of Anesthesiology, Ljubjljana University Medical Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia., Davud Yapici, Ahmed Salaheldin Morsy, Izumi Kawagoe, Tamás Végh, Ricard Navarro-Ripoll, Nandor Marczin, Balazs Paloczi, Carmen Unzueta, GregorioGuido DiGDAnesthesia and Critical Care Azienda Ospedaliera Università di Padova, Padova, Italy., Patrick Wouters, Steffen Rex, Chirojit Mukherjee, Gianluca Paternoster, and Fabio Guarracino.
• Dep. of Anesthesiology & Reanimation, Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey. Electronic address: senturkm@istanbul.edu.tr.
• J. Cardiothorac. Vasc. Anesth. 2021 Dec 1; 35 (12): 352835463528-3546.

AbstractThe novel coronavirus pandemic has radically changed the landscape of normal surgical practice. Lifesaving cancer surgery, however, remains a clinical priority, and there is an increasing need to fully define the optimal oncologic management of patients with varying stages of lung cancer, allowing prioritization of which thoracic procedures should be performed in the current era. Healthcare providers and managers should not ignore the risk of a bimodal peak of mortality in patients with lung cancer; an imminent spike due to mortality from acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection, and a secondary peak reflecting an excess of cancer-related mortality among patients whose treatments were deemed less urgent, delayed, or cancelled. The European Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Thoracic Anesthesia Subspecialty group has considered these challenges and developed an updated set of expert recommendations concerning the infectious period, timing of surgery, vaccination, preoperative screening and evaluation, airway management, and ventilation of thoracic surgical patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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