Why the study?
The COVID-19 pandemic created a worldwide dilemma regarding how to sustain quality care for both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients while protecting healthcare workers.
Provides a worldwide practice update for telehealth and arrhythmia monitoring during and after the COVID-19 pandemic to sustain quality services while protecting healthcare workers.
Guides safe telehealth integration for arrhythmia monitoring; extends prior guidelines to hybrid post-pandemic models.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), started in the city of Wuhan in late 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) studied this question.