PCR Spotlight: case management in the cath lab during Covid-19 pandemic
Javier Escaned (Madrid, Spain) and Salvatore Brugaletta (Barcelona, Spain) discuss how to manage cases in the cath lab.
- reschedule all non-urgent, elective diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
- keep primary PCI as the treatment of choice for STEMI patients
- consider elective PCI in patients at high risk of cardiovascular events (next 3 months)
- perform bedside procedures whenever possible
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This video was recorded on 7 April 2020.
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I think fibrinolytic therapy could be an option for some patients with High suspicion of COVID and STEMI ( excluding high risk cases with cardiogenic shock, severe heart failure, etc.)