The Coronavirus infectious disease 2019 (COVID-19) brings anesthesiologists and intensive care physicians to the mainstay of clinical workload and healthcare managements’ focus.  The current coronavirus infectious disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic brings many challenges to the healthcare system. Since COVID-19 is primarily a respiratory disease, it often leads to respiratory failure, prolonged dependency on mechanical ventilation, and need for high intensity medical care. Anesthesiologists are considered experts in airway management, mechanical ventilation, and intensive care. Anesthesiologists played a critical role in the COVID-19 crisis which is well appreciated.

Tracheal intubation and extubation may be high-risk procedures for aerosol generation and for transmission of COVID-19, particularly if the patient coughs. Other aerosol-generating procedures that may involve anesthesia care include bag mask ventilation, jet ventilation with an open airway, bronchoscopy and interventional pulmonology procedures, noninvasive ventilation, administration of high-flow oxygen or nebulized medications, tracheostomy, open suctioning of airways, upper endoscopy, colonoscopy, and transesophageal echocardiography.

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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