Title
Reduction in ST-Segment Elevation Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Activations in the United States during COVID-19 Pandemic
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Publication Date
2020-04-10
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Cardiology | Cardiovascular Diseases | Infectious Disease | Virus Diseases
Abstract
The COVID-19 Pandemic has significantly impacted the US healthcare system. To preserve resources, including personal protective equipment (PPE) and hospital beds to care for COVID-19 patients, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended deferral of elective cardiac procedures (1), including coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention for stable coronary artery disease.
Timely reperfusion by means of primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) is the standard of care for STEMI patients (2). The Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) continue to recommend PPCI as the standard treatment of STEMI patients during the current pandemic (3). However, anecdotal reports suggest a decline in PPCI volumes in the US and around the world (4).
To determine if a decrease in PPCI is occurring in the US in the COVID-19 era, we analyzed and quantified STEMI activations for 9 high-volume ( over 100 PPCI per year) cardiac catheterization laboratories in the US from January 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020.
Keywords
ST-elevation myocardial infarction, COVID-19
DOI of Published Version
10.1016/j.jacc.2020.04.011
Source
Garcia S, Albaghdadi MS, Meraj PM, Schmidt C, Garberich R, Jaffer FA, Dixon S, Rade JJ, Tannenbaum M, Chambers J, Huang PP, Henry TD. Reduction in ST-Segment Elevation Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Activations in the United States during COVID-19 Pandemic. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2020 Apr 9:S0735-1097(20)34913-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2020.04.011. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32283124. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Related Resources
PubMed ID
32283124
Repository Citation
Garcia S, Albaghdadi MS, Meraj PM, Schmidt C, Garberich R, Jaffer FA, Dixon S, Rade JJ, Tannenbaum M, Chambers J, Huang PP, Henry TD. (2020). Reduction in ST-Segment Elevation Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Activations in the United States during COVID-19 Pandemic. Coronavirus COVID-19 Publications by UMMS Authors. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.04.011. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/covid19/9