Table 3.

Summary for decision-making in different pathologies during phase 3

Pathology	What to operate	What to defer
NSCLC	• Threatened airway • Tumor-associated severe infection • Hemodynamically unstable patients with tumor-associated hemorrhage	As phase 1, 2 plus hemodynamically stable patients with any complication
Esophageal cancer	Septic perforation	As phase 1, 2 plus non-septic perforation
Postoperative complications	Only hemodynamically unstable patients, critically compromised airway as active bleeding not amenable to nonsurgical management, dehiscence of airway, and anastomotic leak with sepsis.	As phase 2 plus any complication not critically compromising the airway or causing hemodynamic instability
Trauma	All emergency cases as massive hemothorax, major airway injury, airway obstruction by inhaled foreign body or advanced tracheal stenosis, and diaphragmatic hernia with strangulation	As phase 2 plus any complication not critically compromising the airway or causing hemodynamic instability