PCR Spotlight: COVID-19 - How to restart an elective programme in interventional cardiology
Interventional Cardiologists Andreas Baumbach and Stephen Edmondson and Anthony Mathur, London, United Kingdom, discuss how to restart an elective programme in interventional cardiology.
Key take-home messages to safely restart an elective programme:
- well established pathways to reintroduce elective procedures,
- requires good planning,
- changes in hospital infrastructure,
- careful patient selection,
- screening and testing to achieve the highest chance of accurate results,
- ongoing Heart Team activity and communication to provide best outcomes
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This page was published on 26 May 2020.
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