Societies issue road map to restart elective cardiac cases

Sixteen cardiovascular societies drafted guidance practices can use to restart elective cases, Medscape reports.

What you should know:

1. The guidance takes a phased approach to reintroducing elective care and covers several types of procedures.

2. The societies developed seven guiding principles to follow when reintroducing care:

  • Collaborate with public health officials and health systems to ensure it's safe to begin performing elective procedures
  • Create a transparent collaborative plan for COVID-19 testing and draft policies around personal protective equipment use before reintroducing procedures
  • Expect different regions to be at different response levels as the pandemic progresses
  • Use different invasive procedures and diagnostic tests in response to the COVID-19 response level
  • Minimally invasive procedures with shorter lengths of stay are preferable if both options have similar efficacy and safety
  • Use less-invasive testing or alternative imaging if both tests are similarly effective
  • Maintain extra capacity in case of a second surge in COVID-19 cases

3. The report also includes a table detailing three levels of response, which the societies noted was created to give maximum flexibility when moving between levels in a region.

View the full guidance here.

 

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