• Eur J Cardiothorac Surg · Oct 2020

    The rapid transformation of cardiac surgery practice in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: insights and clinical strategies from a centre at the epicentre.

    • Isaac George, Michael Salna, Serge Kobsa, Scott Deroo, Jacob Kriegel, David Blitzer, Nicholas J Shea, Alex D'Angelo, Tasnim Raza, Paul Kurlansky, Koji Takeda, Hiroo Takayama, Vinayak Bapat, Yoshifumi Naka, Craig R Smith, Emile Bacha, and Michael Argenziano.
    • Division of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
    • Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2020 Oct 1; 58 (4): 667-675.

    ObjectivesThe onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has forced our cardiac surgery programme and hospital to enact drastic measures that has forced us to change how we care for cardiac surgery patients, assist with COVID-19 care and enable support for the hospital in terms of physical resources, providers and resident training.MethodsIn this review, we review the cardiovascular manifestations of COVID-19 and describe our system-wide adaptations to the pandemic, including the use of telemedicine, how a severe reduction in operative volume affected our programme, the process of redeployment of staff, repurposing of residents into specific task teams, the creation of operation room intensive care units, and the challenges that we faced in this process.ResultsWe offer a revised set of definitions of surgical priority during this pandemic and how this was applied to our system, followed by specific considerations in coronary/valve, aortic, heart failure and transplant surgery. Finally, we outline a path forward for cardiac surgery for the near future.ConclusionsWe recognize that individual programmes around the world will eventually face COVID-19 with varying levels of infection burden and different resources, and we hope this document can assist programmes to plan for the future.This article was received at JTCVS on 14 April 2020, Received in revised form and accepted at JTCVS on 18 April 2020. This article has been copublished in the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Copyright © 2020 Jointly between the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Published by Oxford University Press.

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