id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-268135-77emtyen Moghadam, Vahid Damanpak Letter to the Editor: Additional Recommendations before Intubation of COVID-19 Patients 2020-06-30 .txt text/plain 399 36 45 For instance, in a review article published by Jiang et al., respiratory symptoms including cough and dyspnea, are the common initial findings in such patients after fever. Based on recommendation of this article, anesthesiologists can use injection of lidocaine through the working throat channels before intubation and lidocaine spray as a topical anesthesia in awake patients, but as we know, this type of administrating lidocaine can cause further irritation of airway and tracheal spasm. Therefore, as a resolve of this problem and preventing cough in patients infected with COVID-19, we propose injecting intravenous lidocaine or dexmedetomidine before administrating tracheal intubation. The systematic review and meta-analysis articles published by Clivio et al. Expert recommendations for tracheal intubation in critically ill patients with noval coronavirus disease 2019 Intravenous lidocaine for the prevention of cough: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials Medications to reduce emergence coughing after general anaesthesia with tracheal intubation: a systematic review and network meta-analysis ./cache/cord-268135-77emtyen.txt ./txt/cord-268135-77emtyen.txt