• Hong-Fei Zhang, Lulong Bo, Yun Lin, Feng-Xian Li, Shujun Sun, Hong-Bin Lin, Shi-Yuan Xu, Jinjun Bian, Shanglong Yao, Xiangdong Chen, Lingzhong Meng, and Xiaoming Deng.
• From the Department of Anesthesiology, Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China (H.F.Z., F.X.L., H.B.L., S.Y.X.) Faculty of Anesthesiology, Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China (L.B., J.B., X.D.) Institute of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China (Y.L., S.S., X.C., S.Y.) Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut (L.M.).
• Anesthesiology. 2020 Jun 1; 132 (6): 133313381333-1338.

AbstractThe coronavirus disease 2019, named COVID-19 officially by the World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland) on February 12, 2020, has spread at unprecedented speed. After the first outbreak in Wuhan, China, Chinese anesthesiologists encountered increasing numbers of infected patients since December 2019. Because the main route of transmission is via respiratory droplets and close contact, anesthesia providers are at a high risk when responding to the devastating mass emergency. So far, actions have been taken including but not limited to nationwide actions and online education regarding special procedures of airway management, oxygen therapy, ventilation support, hemodynamic management, sedation, and analgesia. As the epidemic situation has lasted for months (thus far), special platforms have also been set up to provide free mental health care to all anesthesia providers participating in acute and critical caring for COVID-19 patients. The current article documents the actions taken, lesson learned, and future work needed.

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