Early Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Congenital Heart Surgery Programs Across the World: Assessment by a Global Multi-Societal Consortium

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic currently gripping the globe is impacting the entire health care system with rapidly escalating morbidities and mortality. Although the infectious risk to the pediatric population appears low, the effects on children with congenital heart disease (CHD...

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Autores principales: Protopapas, Eleftherios M., Rito, Mauro Lo, Vida, Vladimiro L., Sarris, George E., Tchervenkov, Christo I., Maruszewski, Bohdan J., Tobota, Zdzislaw, Zheleva, Bistra, Zhang, Hao, Jacobs, Jeffery P., Dearani, Joseph A., Stephens, Elizabeth H., Tweddell, James S., Sandoval, Nestor F., Bacha, Emile A., Austin, Erle H., Sakamoto, Kisaburo, Talwar, Sachin, Kurosawa, Hiromi, Halees, Zohair Y. Al, Jatene, Marcello B., Iyer, Krishna S., Lee, Cheul, Sharma, Rajesh, Hirata, Yasutaka, Edwin, Frank, Cervantes, Jorge L., O'Brien, James, St. Louis, James, Kirklin, James K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7450206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32844725
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2150135120949462
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Sumario:The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic currently gripping the globe is impacting the entire health care system with rapidly escalating morbidities and mortality. Although the infectious risk to the pediatric population appears low, the effects on children with congenital heart disease (CHD) remain poorly understood. The closure of congenital heart surgery programs worldwide to address the growing number of infected individuals could have an unintended impact on future health for COVID-19-negative patients with CHD. Pediatric and congenital heart surgeons, given their small numbers and close relationships, are uniquely positioned to collectively assess the impact of the pandemic on surgical practice and care of children with CHD. We present the results of an international survey sent to pediatric and congenital heart surgeons characterizing the early impact of COVID-19 on the care of patients with CHD.

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