• Internal medicine journal · Aug 2020

    Decreases in cardiac catheter laboratory workload during the COVID-19 level 4 lockdown in New Zealand.

    • John M Elliott and Ian G Crozier.
    • Department of Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand.
    • Intern Med J. 2020 Aug 1; 50 (8): 1000-1003.

    AbstractAn increase in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections prompted Level 4 lockdown throughout New Zealand from 25 March 2020. We have investigated trends in coronary and electrophysiology (EP) procedures before and during this lockdown. The number of acute procedures for ST elevation myocardial infarction remained stable. In contrast, the number of in-patient angiograms and percutaneous intervention procedures fell by 53% compared with the previous 4 weeks in 2020 and by 56% compared with the corresponding period in 2019. Further study is required to determine the reasons for these trends.© 2020 Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

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