COVID-19 and One-Lung Ventilation

To the Editor The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic highlights the risk of aerosol-generating medical procedures (AGMPs) and has led to the Canadian Anesthesiologists Society (CAS) “COVID-19 Recommendations During Airway Manipulation” (https://www.cas.ca/en/covid-19). One-lung ventilation (OLV) necessitates AGMPs, including intubation, bronchoscopy, deflating operative lung, and airway suctioning,1 which place the anesthesiologist at...