Considerations on the invasive management of ischemic and structural heart disease during the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.

Abstract

ABSTRACT The current COVID-19 outbreak is forcing healthcare workers to continuously reconsider the proper indications for cardiac catheterization. Human and material resources optimization, infection prevention for patients and healthcare workers, and transfer times force a rethink of the previously established protocols. This article is a consensus statement of the Interventional Cardiology Association and the Ischemic Heart Disease Association of the Spanish Society of Cardiology, and aims to provide information to healthcare workers on the indications of diagnostic or therapeutic cardiac catheterization during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords

• Myocardial infarction
• Interventional Cardiology
• Angioplasty
• Infection
• Prevention
• COVID-19
• Coronavirus
• Pandemic