Mucormycosis in COVID Pandemic and the Challenge for Anesthesiology and Critical Care: A Case Report

Mucormycosis is a rapidly progressing fungal infection caused by filamentous fungi in the Mucoraceae family and frequently seen diabetic immune-compromised patients. categorized as rhino-cerebral, pulmonary, cutaneous, gastrointestinal or disseminated, depending on organ involvement; most common form rhino-cerebral (39%). This may be divided into subtypes based which tissues are affected: rhino-nasal, rhino-orbital rhino-orbito-cerebral. Rhino-orbital begins when spores inhaled invade nasal mucosa, sinusitis develops fungus spreads to Para-nasal sinuses. Orbital involvement occurs invades orbital wall from Symptoms include pain, chemosis, vision loss, Ophthalmoplegia proptosis. arises of muscles space third, fourth sixth cranial nerves affected. Peripheral seventh nerve paresis paralysis hypoesthesia face often observed. We came across 51-year-old male with multiple co morbidities suffering rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis. present his pre, peri, post operative management anesthesiology critical care department Subharti medical college Meerut Uttar Pradesh. India.