Katsaras Dimitrios, Chalil Shajil, Abozguia Khalid
From the Cardiology Department, Lancashire Cardiac Centre, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Blackpool, United Kingdom.
Crit Pathw Cardiol. 2020 Sep;19(3):112-114. doi: 10.1097/HPC.0000000000000226.
Since December 2019, the coronovirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in more than 2,160,000 positive cases and more than 145,000 deaths until April 18, 2020. The pressure to the health services worldwide has been unprecedented. The redeployment of staff and resources to treat more efficiently COVID-19 cases along with the need to reduce disease transmission has affected the field of electrophysiology among many others. Amendments to clinical pathways are obligatory in this perspective to continue to provide the necessary health services to the people who need them, although at the same time, infection control and prevention are not compromised by inadvertent disease transmission or unnecessary use of resources. We aim to provide a guide of the logistic aspects of electrophysiology procedures derived from our tertiary cardiac center during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
自2019年12月以来，截至2020年4月18日，2019冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行已导致超过216万例确诊病例和超过14.5万例死亡。全球卫生服务面临的压力前所未有的大。重新调配工作人员和资源以更高效地治疗COVID-19病例，以及减少疾病传播的需求，影响了包括电生理学领域在内的许多领域。从这个角度来看，修改临床路径是必要的，以便继续为有需要的人提供必要的卫生服务，尽管与此同时，感染控制和预防不能因意外的疾病传播或资源的不必要使用而受到影响。我们旨在提供一份在当前COVID-19大流行期间，来自我们三级心脏中心的电生理手术后勤方面的指南。
