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Managing ACS during COVID-19 infection: Do not follow the traditional route

COVID-19 pandemic is creating havoc in the world. It is also spreading in India creating a massive healthcare problem. Few major hospitals were closed down because of the spread among healthcare personnel. Management of several commonly occurring diseases needed modifications to a lesser or greater...

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Autores principales: Guha, Santanu, Mukhopadhay, Somnath, Karak, Avik, Choudhury, Basabendra, Kapoor, Aditya, Yadav, Rakesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7159859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32534687
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2020.04.003
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Sumario:COVID-19 pandemic is creating havoc in the world. It is also spreading in India creating a massive healthcare problem. Few major hospitals were closed down because of the spread among healthcare personnel. Management of several commonly occurring diseases needed modifications to a lesser or greater extent because of this pandemic. Management of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) also requires certain modifications. In this opinion paper an attempt has been made to give an outline of ACS management in this changed scenario.