[Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection and "in situ split" Liver Resection with Fatal Outcome - A Case Report]. / SARS-CoV-2-Infektion und "In-situ-Split"-Leberresektion mit tödlichem Verlauf.

We report the perioperative course of a 47-year-old patient who underwent a two-stage liver resection for bilobar metastatic colorectal carcinoma. The respiratory asymptomatic patient was tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by PCR detection one day before the second surgical procedure. Postoperatively, the patient suffered cardiovascular arrest on postoperative day 8 and died despite immediately initiated resuscitative measures. With an initial clinical suspicion of vascular liver failure, postmortem pathologic examination revealed the underlying cause of death to be COVID-19-related myocarditis with acute right heart failure. Individual multidisciplinary risk assessment should be considered very critically when deviating from the "7-week rule" because the benefit is difficult to objectify, even in oncologic patients.

[Difficult Airway Management in Thoracic Anaesthesia]. / Atemwegsmanagement ­ der schwierige Atemweg beim thoraxchirurgischen Patienten.

Difficult airway management in thoracic anesthesia has rarely been addressed in current guidelines. However, difficult airway management may be a challenge in thoracic anaesthesia: Achieving lung separation and collapse in combination of potentially distorted upper airway anatomy (difficult upper airway), the presence of subglottic pathologies (difficult lower airway) and the need for one-lung ventilation (difficult lung separation). This review will focus on identification of patients at risk, recommendations and algorithms for the airway management in the anticipated and unexpected difficult in-/extubation, and choice of devices for lung separation in this context.