A special issue on respiration and the airway: critical topics at a challenging time

Abstract

Car il savait …, que le bacille de la peste ne meurt ni ne disparaît jamais, …, et que, peut-être, le jour viendrait où , pour le malheur et l'enseignement des hommes, peste r eveillerait ses rats et les enverrait mourir dans une cit e heureuse. (Albert Camus, La Peste, 1947) He knew … that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; that it can lie dormant for years and years …; and that perhaps the day would come when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.

Aerosol containment device for airway management of patients with COVID-19: a narrative review

“…Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is highly contagious [1][2][3][4]. A considerable number of healthcare workers are believed to have been infected while treating patients with COVID-19, and some died of acute respiratory distress syndrome worldwide [3,4].…”