Institutional preparedness strategies for heart failure, durable left ventricular assist device, and heart transplant patients during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2021 Jul;162(1):131-135. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2020.08.096. Epub 2020 Sep 2.

¹ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, La. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY.
³ Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
⁴ Patient Throughput, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, La.
⁵ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, North Shore University Hospital, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY.
⁶ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill.
⁷ Department of Cardiology and Heart Failure, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Mich.
⁸ Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, La.
⁹ Department of Cardiology and Heart Failure, Mount Sinai Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.

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Keywords: COVID-19; LVAD; collaboration; heart failure; heart transplant; infection; institutional preparedness; pandemic; protocols; quarantine.

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