Triage and management of aortic emergencies during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: A consensus document supported by the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) and Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (ASCVTS)

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute.
• ² Department of Anesthesiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill.
• ³ Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
• ⁴ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan.
• ⁵ Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif.
• ⁶ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nara Prefecture General Medical Center, Nara Prefectural Hospital Organization, Nara, Japan.
• ⁷ Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
• ⁸ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo.