To the editor, we would like to share ideas on “Impact of the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic on electrophysiological procedures at a national referral center.” Cueva-Parra et al. concluded that “The COVID-19 pandemic considerably affected the number of the procedures in our center, reducing it (...)”1. We agree that COVID-19 affects clinical practice worldwide. An elective and non-necessary procedure is usually postponed during COVID-192. Telemedical care might be used in many cases2. However, decision to perform or not to perform a procedure depends on several factors. Local public health policies play important role3. If there is a complete lockdown and it is not possible to access healthcare facilities, reduction in number of procedures is expected. In the present report, there should be an in depth analysis on the pattern of reduction of procedure in different phase of outbreak. A more reduction might be observed during the period with a peak of COVID-19 outbreak.
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Archivos de cardiología de México
On-line version ISSN 1665-1731Print version ISSN 1405-9940
Arch. Cardiol. Méx. vol.91 suppl.2 Ciudad de México Jan./Dec. 2021 Epub Feb 07, 2022
https://doi.org/10.24875/acm.21000298
Letters to the editor
COVID-19 pandemic and electrophysiological procedures
Procedimientos electrofisiológicos y pandémicos de COVID-19
1Consultant Unit, Private Academic Consultant Center, Bangkok, Thailand
2Department of Community Medicine, Dr DY Patil University, Pune, India
References
1. Cueva-Parra A, Muñoz-Benavides G, Fernández-Domenech JA, Gómez-Flores J, Levinstein M, Morales JL, et al. Impact of the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic on electrophysiological procedures at a national referral center. Arch Cardiol Mex. 2021;2021:21000164. [ Links ]
2. Nan J, Zhang T, Tian Y, Song K, Li Q, Fu Q, et al. Impact of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease pandemic on the performance of a cardiovascular department in a non-epidemic center in Beijing, China. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2021;8:630816. [ Links ]
3. Berman JP, Abrams MP, Kushnir A, Rubin GA, Ehlert F, Biviano A, et al. Cardiac electrophysiology consultative experience at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Indian Pacing Electrophysiol J. 2020;20:250-6. [ Links ]
FundingThis research has not received any specific grant from public, commercial, or non-profit sector agencies.
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Protection of human and animal subjects. The authors declare that no experiments were performed on humans or animals for this study.
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Received: September 19, 2021; Accepted: October 19, 2021