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| Year : 2022 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 471-474 |
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Mysterious alarming mucormycosis: Anesthetic challenges in a series of four cases
JF Neville1, Abhinay Jayanthi2, Reena2, Amrita Rath2
1 Department of Surgical Oncology, IMS, BHU, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
2 Department of Anesthesiology, IMS, BHU, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Amrita Rath
Department of Anesthesiology, IMS, BHU, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/njms.njms_465_21
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The sudden epidemic of mucormycosis amid COVID-19 pandemic has significantly challenged our understanding of the disease while affecting the whole medical and surgical management. Overzealous use of steroids in the management of covid-19 and uncontrolled diabetes mellitus has resulted in a tremendous rise in mucormycosis cases further burdening the already strained health care infrastructure and health care workers, especially the anesthesiologists. While working in a tertiary care institute of the country, we have been facing multiple challenges in its anesthetic management on a daily basis. This article is a case series involving four different patients who were operated for rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis with a brief discussion on various aspects of this multisystem epidemic.
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