Safe Reintroduction of Cardiovascular Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: From the North American Society Leadership

David A. Wood; Ehtisham Mahmud; Vinod H. Thourani; Janarthanan Sathananthan; Alice Virani; Athena Poppas; Robert A. Harrington; Joseph A. Dearani; Madhav Swaminathan; Andrea M. Russo; Ron Blankstein; Sharmila Dorbala; James Carr; Sean Virani; Kenneth Gin; Alan Packard; Vasken Dilsizian; Jean François Légaré; Jonathon Leipsic; John G. Webb; Andrew D. Krahn

doi:10.1016/j.cjca.2020.04.031

Safe Reintroduction of Cardiovascular Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: From the North American Society Leadership

David A. Wood^*, Ehtisham Mahmud, Vinod H. Thourani, Janarthanan Sathananthan, Alice Virani, Athena Poppas, Robert A. Harrington, Joseph A. Dearani, Madhav Swaminathan, Andrea M. Russo, Ron Blankstein, Sharmila Dorbala, James Carr, Sean Virani, Kenneth Gin, Alan Packard, Vasken Dilsizian, Jean François Légaré, Jonathon Leipsic, John G. WebbAndrew D. Krahn

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Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	971-976
Number of pages	6
Journal	Canadian Journal of Cardiology
Volume	36
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjca.2020.04.031
State	Published - Jul 2020

Keywords

COVID-19 pandemic
cardiac computed tomography
cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
cardiovascular procedures
cardiovascular surgery
diagnostic tests
echocardiography
electrophysiology
interventional cardiology
nuclear cardiac imaging

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Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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Wood, D. A., Mahmud, E., Thourani, V. H., Sathananthan, J., Virani, A., Poppas, A., Harrington, R. A., Dearani, J. A., Swaminathan, M., Russo, A. M., Blankstein, R., Dorbala, S., Carr, J., Virani, S., Gin, K., Packard, A., Dilsizian, V., Légaré, J. F., Leipsic, J., ... Krahn, A. D. (2020). Safe Reintroduction of Cardiovascular Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: From the North American Society Leadership. Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 36(7), 971-976. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjca.2020.04.031

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