ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 crisis has surged worldwide, putting immense stress on the health care services, leading to institutions deferring elective procedures and struggling to triage the emergency care of cardiac patients. This has affected the management of the rheumatic valvular heart disease patients especially, in developing countries, potentially placing these patients at enormous risk for complications like congestive cardiac failure, stroke and death. This article explores the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on rheumatic valvular heart disease patient care. We try to provide a framework that addresses the procedural considerations of interventions like percutaneous transluminal mitral commissurotomy (PTMC), mitral and aortic valve surgeries. This article also highlights the implications for the outpatient valve clinic, and safety issues of the patient and health care workers during this ongoing pandemic.
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as a serious global threat causing a large number of fatalities and putting enormous strain on the health care resources across the world. This has resulted in preferentially triaging the coronavirus infected patients and placing others, especially cardiovascular patients at increased risk for adverse complications. The effective management of cardiac patients in the hospital environment during this COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as a real challenge. We try to address this issue and also highlight the interplay between COVID-19 and cardiovascular diseases. We hereby review the available literature and emerging guidelines about cardiovascular implications related to COVID-19 which will have a bearing on the patient care, health care professionals and cardiac centres.
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Cardiovascular Diseases/therapy , Coronavirus Infections , Pandemics , Patient Care/standards , Pneumonia, Viral , Betacoronavirus , COVID-19 , Humans , Practice Guidelines as Topic , SARS-CoV-2Subject(s)
Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology , Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology , ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction/epidemiology , Air Pollution/statistics & numerical data , Betacoronavirus , COVID-19 , Hospitalization/statistics & numerical data , Humans , Italy/epidemiology , Pandemics , SARS-CoV-2 , Spain/epidemiology , Stress, Psychological/epidemiology , United States/epidemiologyABSTRACT
The Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has rampaged across the globe, creating a major public health emergency and economic crisis, In this pandemic, digital technology tools, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), big-data analytics, block chain technology, robotics, and drone technology are playing a vital role, and are increasingly being utilised by many countries for devising major public health strategies, This article discusses the utility of digital technology in combating coronavirus infection and also highlights the current limitations and future prospects of these tools.