Safe Reintroduction of Cardiovascular Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: From the North American Society Leadership

David A Wood; Ehtisham Mahmud; Vinod H Thourani; Janarthanan Sathananthan; Alice Virani; Athena Poppas; Robert A Harrington; Joseph A Dearani; Madhav Swaminathan; Andrea M Russo; Ron Blankstein; Sharmila Dorbala; James Carr; Sean Virani; Kenneth Gin; Alan Packard; Vasken Dilsizian; Jean-François Légaré; Jonathon Leipsic; John G Webb; Andrew D Krahn

doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2020.04.063

Safe Reintroduction of Cardiovascular Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: From the North American Society Leadership

J Am Coll Cardiol. 2020 Jun 30;75(25):3177-3183. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2020.04.063. Epub 2020 May 4.

Authors

David A Wood¹, Ehtisham Mahmud², Vinod H Thourani³, Janarthanan Sathananthan⁴, Alice Virani⁵, Athena Poppas⁶, Robert A Harrington⁷, Joseph A Dearani⁸, Madhav Swaminathan⁹, Andrea M Russo¹⁰, Ron Blankstein¹¹, Sharmila Dorbala¹¹, James Carr¹², Sean Virani⁴, Kenneth Gin⁴, Alan Packard¹³, Vasken Dilsizian¹⁴, Jean-François Légaré¹⁵, Jonathon Leipsic⁴, John G Webb⁴, Andrew D Krahn⁴

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Cardiovascular Innovation, St Paul's and Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Centre for Heart Valve Innovation, St Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Electronic address: david.wood@vch.ca.
² University of California, San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, La Jolla, California.
³ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Marcus Valve Center, Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta, Georgia.
⁴ Centre for Cardiovascular Innovation, St Paul's and Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Centre for Heart Valve Innovation, St Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁵ Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁶ Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island.
⁷ Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
⁸ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
⁹ Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
¹⁰ Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, New Jersey.
¹¹ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
¹² Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
¹³ Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
¹⁴ Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
¹⁵ New Brunswick Heart Centre, Dalhousie University, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; cardiac computed tomography; cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; cardiovascular procedures; cardiovascular surgery; diagnostic tests; echocardiography; electrophysiology; interventional cardiology; nuclear cardiac imaging.

Publication types

Practice Guideline

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
Cardiology Service, Hospital / organization & administration*
Cardiovascular Surgical Procedures*
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control*
Coronavirus Infections / transmission
Diagnostic Techniques, Cardiovascular*
Humans
North America
Pandemics / prevention & control*
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control*
Pneumonia, Viral / transmission
SARS-CoV-2
Societies, Medical