Department of Anesthesiology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Japan.
J Anesth. 2023 Apr;37(2):274-277. doi: 10.1007/s00540-022-03137-5. Epub 2022 Nov 19.
The COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing as of September 2022. Since January 2020 when the first case was reported in Japan, the medical community faced a variety of problems both domestically and internationally. It is meaningful to review the impact of COVID-19 from an anesthesiologist's perspective to clarify our policy for future infectious disease outbreaks. In this year's Journal of Anesthesia (JA) symposium, five experts who were deeply involved in the COVID-19 response reviewed the past 2.5 years and made recommendations for potential future pandemics. Anesthesiologists are specialists in airway management and their role in intubating patients with COVID-19 has received much attention. However, they have also played an important backup role in intensive care as critical care physicians and must be more involved in critical care in regular (non-pandemic) times to properly fulfill this role. It is especially important for the Japan Society of Anesthesiologists and JA to quickly disseminate accurate information on unknown infectious diseases to the medical community and wider society. Therefore, it is important to promptly publish papers that are quality-assured through peer review.
截至 2022 年 9 月，COVID-19 大流行仍在持续。自 2020 年 1 月日本报告首例病例以来，医学界在国内外都面临着各种问题。从麻醉师的角度回顾 COVID-19 的影响，明确我们对未来传染病爆发的政策是有意义的。在今年的《麻醉杂志》（JA）研讨会上，五位深度参与 COVID-19 应对工作的专家回顾了过去 2.5 年的情况，并为潜在的未来大流行提出了建议。麻醉师是气道管理的专家，他们在为 COVID-19 患者插管方面的作用受到了广泛关注。然而，作为重症监护医生，他们在重症监护中也扮演着重要的后备角色，必须在常规（非大流行）时期更多地参与重症监护，以正确履行这一角色。日本麻醉师学会和 JA 尽快向医学界和更广泛的社会传播有关未知传染病的准确信息非常重要。因此，及时发表经过同行评审质量保证的论文非常重要。
