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Practice Guideline
Committee Recommendations for Resuming Cardiac Surgery Activity in the SARS-CoV-2 Era: Guidance From an International Cardiac Surgery Consortium.
- Joanna Chikwe, Mario Gaudino, Irbaz Hameed, N Bryce Robinson, Faisal G Bakaeen, Lorenzo Menicanti, Torsten Doenst, Zhe Zheng, Massimo Lemma, Volkmar Falk, James Tatoulis, Leonard N Girardi, Stephen Fremes, and Marc Ruel.
- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
- Ann. Thorac. Surg. 2020 Aug 1; 110 (2): 725-732.
AbstractRecommendations for the safe and optimized resumption of cardiac surgery care, research, and education during the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) era were developed by a cardiovascular research consortium, based in 19 countries and representing a wide spectrum of experience with COVID-19. This guidance document provides a framework for restarting cardiac surgery in the outpatient and inpatient settings, in accordance with the current understanding of SARS-CoV-2, the risks posed by interrupted cardiovascular care, and the available recommendations from major societies.Copyright © 2020 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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