Cardiological society of India document on safety measure during echo evaluation of cardiovascular disease in the time of COVID-19.

Autor:	Gupta R; JROP Institute of Echocardiography, Ultrasound & Vascular Doppler, JROP Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., C-1/16, Ashok Vihar-II, Delhi, 110052, India; JROP Charak Heart City, MD City Hospital, Model Town Northex, Delhi, 110009, India. Electronic address: rakeshecho@gmail.com., Das MK; C K Birla Group of Hospitals (BMB and CMRI), Kolkata, West Bengal, India., Mohanan PP; Westfort Hi-Tech Hospital, Thrissur, Kerala, India., Deb PK; Daffodil Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India., Parashar SK; Metro Heart Hospital, Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi, India., Chopra HK; Moolchand Medcity, New Delhi, India., Shrivastava S; Fortis Escort Heart Institute, Okhla, New Delhi, India., Guha S; Calcutta Medical College Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India., Goswami KC; All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India., Yadav R; All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India., Alagesan R; K M Speciality Hospital, Chennai, India., Amuthan V; Jeyalakshmi Heart Center, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India., Bansal M; Medanta, The Medicity, New Delhi, India., Chakraborty RN; Medica Group of Superspeciality Hospitals, Kolkata, West Bengal, India., Chakraborti N; Medica Group of Superspeciality Hospitals, Kolkata, West Bengal, India., Chandra S; King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India., Chatterjee A; NH-Imperial, Chittagong, Bangladesh., Chatterjee D; Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Kolkata, India., Chatterjee SS; Cardiology Clinic, Kolkata, India., Dutta AL; Peerless Hospital. Kolkata, India., De A; Apollo Gleneagles Hospital, Kolkata, India., Garg A; Jaipur Heart Institute, Jaipur, India., Garg VK; R D Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India., Goyal A; Bani Park Hospital, Jaipur, India., Goyal NK; BLK Superspeciality Hospital, New Delhi, India., Govind SC; Narayana Healthcity, Bengaluru, India., Gupta VK; Kishori Ram Hospital & Diabetes Care Centre, Bhatinda, India., Hasija PK; Military Hospital, Chennai, India., Jabir A; Lisie Hospital Kochi, Kerala, India., Jain P; Lifeline Superspeciality Hospital, Jhansi, India., Jain V; Choithram Hospital &R.C., Indore, India., Jayagopal PB; Laxmi Hospital, Palakkad, Kerala, India., Kasliwal RR; Medanta Medicity, Gurgaon, India., Katyal VK; PGIMS, ROHTAK, India., Kerkar PG; KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India., Khan AK; AMRI Hospital, Salt Lake, Kolkata, India., Khanna NN; Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India., Mandal M; NRS Medical College, Kolkata, India., Majumder B; R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata, India., Mishra SS; Hi-Tech Medical College and Hospital, Bhubaneshwar, India., Meena CB; SMS Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan., Naik N; AIIMS, New Delhi, India., Narain VS; King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India., Pancholia AK; Arihant Hospital & Research Center, Indore, India., Pathak LA; Nanavati Heart Institute, Nanavati Superspeciality Hospital, Mumbai, India., Ponde CK; PD Hinduja National Hospital & RC, Mumbai, India., Raghu K; Care Hospital, Hyderabad, India., Ray S; Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences, Kolkata, India., Roy D; Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Kolkata, India., Sarma D; Jorhat Christian Medical Centre Hospital, Jorhat, Assam, India., Shanmugasundarum S; Billroth Hospital, Chennai, India., Singh BP; IGIMS, Patna, India., Tyagi S; GB Pant Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, New Delhi, India., Vijayaraghavan G; Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences, Trivandrum, India., Wander GS; Hero DMC Heart Institute, Ludhiana, India., Wardhan H; Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, India., Nanda NC; University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Indian heart journal [Indian Heart J] 2020 May - Jun; Vol. 72 (3), pp. 145-150. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 May 26.
DOI:	10.1016/j.ihj.2020.05.016
Abstrakt:	An echocardiographic investigation is one of the key modalities of diagnosis in cardiology. There has been a rising presence of cardiological comorbidities in patients positive for COVID-19. Hence, it is becoming extremely essential to look into the correct safety precautions, healthcare professionals must take while conducting an echo investigation. The decision matrix formulated for conducting an echocardiographic evaluation is based on presence or absence of cardiological comorbidity vis-à-vis positive, suspected or negative for COVID-19. The safety measures have been constructed keeping in mind the current safety precautions by WHO, CDC and MoHFW, India. Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The author has none to declare. (Copyright © 2020. Published by Elsevier B.V.)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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