Response of Cardiac Surgery Units to COVID-19: An Internationally-Based Quantitative Survey

Circulation. 2020 Jul 21;142(3):300-302. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.047865. Epub 2020 May 11.

Authors

Mario Gaudino¹, Joanna Chikwe², Irbaz Hameed¹, N Bryce Robinson¹, Stephen E Fremes³, Marc Ruel⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY (M.G., I.H., N.B.R.).
² Department of Cardiac Surgery, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA (J.C.).
³ Schulich Heart Centre Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada (S.E.F.).
⁴ Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ontario, Canada (M.R.).

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; cardiac surgery.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus / pathogenicity*
COVID-19
Cardiac Surgical Procedures / trends*
Cardiologists / trends*
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / therapy*
Coronavirus Infections / virology
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / trends*
Health Care Surveys
Heart Diseases / diagnosis
Heart Diseases / epidemiology
Heart Diseases / surgery*
Host Microbial Interactions
Humans
Pandemics
Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / trends*
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral / therapy*
Pneumonia, Viral / virology
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / trends*
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
SARS-CoV-2
Surgeons / trends*
Time-to-Treatment / trends
Treatment Outcome
Workflow