Webinar Recording Link

Link to Video referenced: “COVID-19 Cath Lab Implications: Frontline View from Italy”

Triage Considerations for Patients Referred for Structural Heart Disease Intervention During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: An ACC /SCAI Consensus Statement

Catheterization Laboratory Considerations During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: From ACC’s Interventional Council and SCAI

Discussion Topics:

Evaluation of the ACS patient in the COVID-19 era

• Assessment – Bedside echo? CTA?
• DTB time changed
• ER sends directly to cath lab/no EMS
• SCAI algorithm

Use of thrombolytics

• SCAI and ACC statements issued

Where have all the STEMIs gone?

Precautions for cath lab staff

• Airflow considerations in the cath lab
• Full PPE
• Cleaning the room between cases
• Where to don & doff

Potential change in strategies with rapid bedside testing (predictive value/specificity)

Take outside transfers?

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