Abstract
Examining the impact of COVID-19 on cardiac surgery services: The lessons learned from this pandemic.
Highlights
December 2019, and the rapid spread and emergence of this virus have for supporting the focused management of COVID‐19 patients, it is caused significant disruptions in the delivery of healthcare services worldwide.[1,2] In particular, the provision of cardiac surgery has been important to reflect upon the future consequences of delayed elective cardiac surgery
Active coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) operation in a patient with SARS‐CoV‐2 infection may precipitate an overproduction of early reasymptomatic SARS‐CoV‐2 infection, which offers insights into how cardiac surgery could be adapted to solve the challenges of this sponse proinflammatory cytokines in postoperative period, leading to unfavorable surgical outcomes.[7,8]
In response to the burden of COVID‐19 on healthcare systems in shown that patients with established cardiovascular diseases may have a greater risk of increased SARS‐CoV‐2 infection severity and prognosis.[9] the UK, elective cardiac surgeries have been delayed owing to the Taken together, assessment for active infection is crucial for risk stratiredistribution of intensive care resources and the unquantifiable risk of acquiring COVID‐19.2 Likewise, cardiac surgery services have unfication
Summary
December 2019, and the rapid spread and emergence of this virus have for supporting the focused management of COVID‐19 patients, it is caused significant disruptions in the delivery of healthcare services worldwide.[1,2] In particular, the provision of cardiac surgery has been important to reflect upon the future consequences of delayed elective cardiac surgery.
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