The Surgical Smoke in COVID Pandemic. Known and Unknown Facts

In a short period, the corona crisis has reached gigantic proportions. There is an orchestrated interruption in the normal operation of the hospital to redirect the resources available for crisis management. COVID-19, the 2020 pandemic of the novel coronavirus, has raised questions about the possibility of transmission of viruses to operating room workers. This refers not only to the intubation and extubating of the airway during anesthesia, but also to the release into the smoke or plume of possible infectious particles. Owing to the uncertain prevalence of asymptomatic COVID-19 carriers, conducting surgeries during this pandemic poses risks to the surgical team in the absence of widespread monitoring. Aerosol development during the activity of these tissues, given the highly contagious transmissibility.