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

Speakers

Salvatore Brugaletta

Interventional cardiologist / Cardiologist

Barcelona, Spain

Javier Escaned

Interventional cardiologist / Cardiologist

Hospital Universitario Clínico San Carlos - Madrid, Spain

This video was recorded on 7 April 2020.

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  • Kareem Mahmoud 19 Apr 2020

    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.)