Why the study?
The COVID-19 pandemic created a worldwide health care dilemma on how to sustain capacity for quality services for both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients while protecting health care workers.
Provides a worldwide practice update from major cardiovascular societies for telehealth and arrhythmia monitoring during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Supports telehealth adoption to maintain arrhythmia care continuity amid pandemic constraints; extends society consensus for clinical implementation and future remote-monitoring studies.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), started in the city of Wuhan late in 2019. Within a few months, the disease spread toward all parts of the world and was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The current health care dilemma worldwide is how to sustain the capacity for quality services not only for those suffering from COVID-19 but also for non-COVID-19 patients, all while protecting physicians, nurses, and other allied health care workers.
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Varma et al. (2020) conducted a review in COVID-19 and arrhythmia. Telehealth and arrhythmia monitoring was evaluated. A worldwide practice update outlines strategies for telehealth and arrhythmia monitoring to sustain quality care for COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients during the pandemic.
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