HRS/EHRA/APHRS/LAHRS/ACC/AHA worldwide practice update for telehealth and arrhythmia monitoring during and after a pandemic

Niraj Varma; Nassir F Marrouche; Luis Aguinaga; Christine M Albert; Elena Arbelo; Jong-Il Choi; Mina K Chung; Giulio Conte; Lilas Dagher; Laurence M Epstein; Hamid Ghanbari; Janet K Han; Hein Heidbuchel; He Huang; Dhanunjaya R Lakkireddy; Tachapong Ngarmukos; Andrea M Russo; Eduardo B Saad; Luis C Saenz Morales; Kristin E Sandau; Arun Raghav M Sridhar; Eric C Stecker; Paul D Varosy

doi:10.1093/europace/euaa187

HRS/EHRA/APHRS/LAHRS/ACC/AHA worldwide practice update for telehealth and arrhythmia monitoring during and after a pandemic

Europace. 2021 Feb 5;23(2):313. doi: 10.1093/europace/euaa187.

Authors

Niraj Varma¹, Nassir F Marrouche², Luis Aguinaga³, Christine M Albert⁴, Elena Arbelo^{5

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7}, Jong-Il Choi⁸, Mina K Chung¹, Giulio Conte⁹, Lilas Dagher², Laurence M Epstein¹⁰, Hamid Ghanbari¹¹, Janet K Han¹², Hein Heidbuchel¹³, He Huang¹⁴, Dhanunjaya R Lakkireddy¹⁵, Tachapong Ngarmukos¹⁶, Andrea M Russo¹⁷, Eduardo B Saad¹⁸, Luis C Saenz Morales¹⁹, Kristin E Sandau²⁰, Arun Raghav M Sridhar²¹, Eric C Stecker²², Paul D Varosy²³

Affiliations

¹ Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
² Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.
³ Centro Privado de Cardiología, Tucuman, Argentina.
⁴ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁵ Arrhythmia Section, Cardiology Department, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁶ Institut d'Investigacións Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.
⁷ Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), Madrid, Spain.
⁸ Korea University Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
⁹ Cardiocentro, Lugano, Switzerland.
¹⁰ Northwell Health, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY, USA.
¹¹ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
¹² VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
¹³ Antwerp University and University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium.
¹⁴ Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
¹⁵ Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute and Research Foundation, Overland Park, KS, USA.
¹⁶ Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
¹⁷ Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, USA.
¹⁸ Hospital Pró-Cardíaco, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
¹⁹ CardioInfantil Foundation, Cardiac Institute, Bogota, Colombia.
²⁰ Bethel University, St. Paul, MN, USA.
²¹ University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
²² Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
²³ VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System and University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Arrhythmias; COVID-19; Pandemic; Position paper; QT interval; Remote monitoring; Telemedicine.

MeSH terms

Antiviral Agents / pharmacology
Arrhythmias, Cardiac* / epidemiology
Arrhythmias, Cardiac* / etiology
Arrhythmias, Cardiac* / therapy
COVID-19* / epidemiology
COVID-19* / therapy
Cardiology Service, Hospital* / organization & administration
Cardiology Service, Hospital* / trends
Electrocardiography, Ambulatory* / instrumentation
Electrocardiography, Ambulatory* / methods
Electrophysiologic Techniques, Cardiac / methods*
Forecasting
Humans
International Cooperation
Organizational Innovation
SARS-CoV-2
Societies, Medical / trends
Telemedicine* / methods
Telemedicine* / organization & administration
Telemedicine* / trends

Substances

Antiviral Agents