HRS/EHRA/APHRS/LAHRS/ACC/AHA Worldwide Practice Update for Telehealth and Arrhythmia Monitoring During and After a Pandemic

Niraj Varma; Nassir F Marrouche; Luis Aguinaga; Christine M Albert; Elena Arbelo; Jong-Il Choi; Mina K Chung; Giulio Conte; Lilas Dagher; Laurence M Epstein; Hamid Ghanbari; Janet K Han; Hein Heidbuchel; He Huang; Dhanunjaya R Lakkireddy; Tachapong Ngarmukos; Andrea M Russo; Eduardo B Saad; Luis C Saenz Morales; Kristin E Sandau; Arun Raghav M Sridhar; Eric C Stecker; Paul D Varosy

doi:10.1161/CIRCEP.120.009007

HRS/EHRA/APHRS/LAHRS/ACC/AHA Worldwide Practice Update for Telehealth and Arrhythmia Monitoring During and After a Pandemic

Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2020 Jul;13(7):e009007. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.120.009007. Epub 2020 Jul 21.

Authors

Niraj Varma¹, Nassir F Marrouche², Luis Aguinaga³, Christine M Albert⁴, Elena Arbelo^{5

6}, Jong-Il Choi⁷, Mina K Chung¹, Giulio Conte⁸, Lilas Dagher², Laurence M Epstein⁹, Hamid Ghanbari¹⁰, Janet K Han¹¹, Hein Heidbuchel¹², He Huang¹³, Dhanunjaya R Lakkireddy¹⁴, Tachapong Ngarmukos¹⁵, Andrea M Russo¹⁶, Eduardo B Saad¹⁷, Luis C Saenz Morales¹⁸, Kristin E Sandau¹⁹, Arun Raghav M Sridhar²⁰, Eric C Stecker²¹, Paul D Varosy²¹

Affiliations

¹ Cleveland Clinic, OH (N.V., M.K.C.).
² Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA (N.F.M., L.D.).
³ Centro Privado de Cardiología, Tucuman, Argentina (L.A.).
⁴ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA (C.M.A.).
⁵ Arrhythmia Section, Cardiology Department, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. Institut d'Investigacións Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain (E.A.).
⁶ Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), Madrid, Spain (E.A.).
⁷ Korea University Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea (J.-I.C.).
⁸ Cardiocentro, Lugano, Switzerland (G.C.).
⁹ Northwell Health, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, New York (L.M.E.).
¹⁰ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (H.G.).
¹¹ VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California (J.K.H.).
¹² Antwerp University and University Hospital, Belgium (H. Heidbuchel).
¹³ Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, China (H. Huang).
¹⁴ Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute and Research Foundation, Overland Park (D.R.K.).
¹⁵ Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand (T.N.).
¹⁶ Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ (A.M.R.).
¹⁷ Hospital Pró-Cardíaco, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (E.B.S.).
¹⁸ CardioInfantil Foundation, Cardiac Institute, Bogota, Colombia (L.C.S.M.).
¹⁹ Bethel University, St. Paul, MN (K.E.S.).
²⁰ University of Washington, Seattle (A.R.M.S.).
²¹ Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR (E.C.S.).

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; QT interval; telemedicine.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Arrhythmias, Cardiac / diagnosis
Arrhythmias, Cardiac / epidemiology*
Arrhythmias, Cardiac / therapy
COVID-19
Cause of Death
Comorbidity
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control
Female
Global Health*
Humans
Inpatients / statistics & numerical data
Long-Term Care / organization & administration
Male
Monitoring, Physiologic / methods
Outpatients / statistics & numerical data
Pandemics / prevention & control
Pandemics / statistics & numerical data*
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Program Evaluation
Risk Assessment
Subacute Care / organization & administration*
Survival Analysis
Telemedicine / organization & administration*

Grants and funding

K23 HL135397/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States