Although COVID-19 isn't primarily a surgical disease, it's significantly affected surgical practice in multiple ways. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected health care in some ways . This has often led to delays of nonurgent surgeries. Although surgeons aren't frontline health workers, several series of infections emerged from operating theatres. Leading health institutions are providing guidance for hospitals to securely perform surgeries during the pandemic, also as recommendations on when to delay.

Operating rooms (ORs) are potential risk areas for the transmission of airborne infections due to the presence of a multidisciplinary team and therefore the requirement for high-transmission risk activities, like airway assessment. Additional challenges presented by the COVID-19 outbreak include the worldwide demand for resources, staff burnout, increased transmission risk, and increased load on our health care systems. Anaesthesiologists are in close contact with the patient’s airway and consequently face a high risk of airborne transmission. employing a procedure-specific protocol for surgical anaesthesia for COVID-19 patients will help reduce potential cross-infections within the hospital.

The scholar journal uses editorial manager system for maintaining quality of the whole process of manuscript submission, peer review and tracking. Journal of Surgery and Anesthesia aims to maintain a rapid editorial procedure and a rigorous peer-review system for all the submitted manuscripts. The submitted articles are peer-reviewed within 21 days of submission and the accepted articles are published immediately. Acceptance of any manuscript for publication requires approval of at least two independent reviewers and the editor.

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