Coronavirus (COVID-19)
This page contains medical information for clinicians on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19, also called 2019-nCoV, and now clinically SARS‐CoV‐2). This section includes articles that pertain to clinicians and cardiologists on the virus, new technologies being deployed to fight the virus and clinical information from various sources. Here are direct links for medical professionals to COVID-19 resources from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Daily world-wide statistics on the coronavirus outbreak are available from the WHO Situations Reports. Here is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) frequently asked questions and answers (FAQs) for healthcare providers regarding Medicare payment for laboratory tests and other services related to the COVID-19.
Videos | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | October 20, 2020
Chuck Simonton, M.D., chief medical officer at Abiomed, explains when advanced hemodynamic support in required in COVID...
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | October 14, 2020
October 14, 2020 — American College of Cardiology (ACC) Quality Summit virtual meeting Oct. 8-9, 2020, featured several...
Interventional cardiology and structural heart pioneer Martin Leon, M.D., is the name-sake of the new joint ACC-CRF Center for Cardiovascular Transformation.
News | TCT | October 14, 2020
October 14, 2020 — The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) are...
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COVID-19 has posed challenges for physicians whose cardiac patients are at-risk and reluctant to schedule an office...
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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | October 14, 2020
October 14, 2020 – The first outcomes data from the North American COVID-19 ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction...
Videos | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | October 06, 2020
Ryan Barbaro, M.D., clinical assistant professor, pediatric critical care medicine, University of Michigan, and chair...
The Mesuron Inc. Avalon-H90 uses magnetometers to detect myocarditis in patients without any physical contact. It uses ventricular repolarization dynamics analysis software to look for abnormalities. The vendor said it is more specific than using ECG. It detects the multidimensional dynamics of the electrical activity caused by differences in functions of electrical action potential of normal heart tissues and abnormal ones with hypoxia.
News | Cardiac Diagnostics | October 06, 2020
October 6, 2020 — A new technology being developed by U.S.-based Mesuron Inc. using a superconducting quantum...
Very ill COVID-19 patients have a high rate of in-hospital sudden cardiac arrest and very low survival rates. Getty Images
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | October 02, 2020
October 2, 2020 — Even when a sudden cardiac arrest happens inside a top hospital, where a code blue team is readily...
Videos | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | September 29, 2020
Deepika Thacker, M.D., a pediatric cardiologist with Nemours Children’s Health System, Wilmington, Del., helped...
An ECMO procedure at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. The FDA cleared the use of ECMO support for COVID-19 patients in April 2020. A new review of patients treated with ECMO showed it had positive outcomes in the most severe COVID-19 patients. Photo by Dave Fornell
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | September 29, 2020
September 29, 2020 – Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support saved lives in past epidemics of lung-damaging...
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | September 25, 2020
Short-term Hydroxychloroquine Use in COVID-19 Patients Does Not Cause Lethal Arrhythmias if Screened
September 25, 2020 — Short-term hydroxychloroquine treatment is not associated with lethal heart rhythms in patients...
SARS-CoV-2 infection of cells shown in green, left. This is inhibited by a modified form of cholesterol called 25-hydroxycholesterol (25HC), as seen in the cells in the right image. 25HC activates an enzyme called ACAT, found inside cells in the endoplasmic reticulum. ACAT then depletes accessible cholesterol on the cell’s membrane. It is a normally occurring process that gets kicked into high gear during some viral infections. Image from UC San Diego Health Sciences.
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | September 24, 2020
September 24, 2020 — Analyzing anonymized patient medical records, University of California (UC) San Diego Health...
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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | September 17, 2020
September 17, 2020 — Debates over whether hydroxychloroquine should be taken to help lessen the duration and impact of...
Naples Community Hospital Director of Cardiac Imaging Bill Shirkey showing a point-of-care echocardiogram of a COVID-19 patient he imaged with a GE Healthcare Vscan device bedside in an isolation room. Use of a small handheld device greatly speeds disinfection after the exam and does not require moving a larger cart-based ultrasound system into a room, which may require moving furniture and add exposure time in the room.
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | September 15, 2020
September 15, 2020 — The world is facing a global pandemic with unknown implications, but is now well known COVID-19 (...
Videos | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | September 15, 2020
Case is a 6-month-old infant boy admitted to hospital due to respiratory distress then worsened by a pericardial...
Exantham on abdomen and back of a pediatric patient at Nemours Children’s Health System in Delaware who presented with mysterious symptoms in what would later be identified as one of the first cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) in the United States. Find more images
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | September 14, 2020
September 14, 2020 – At the height of the COVID-19 (SAR-CoV-2) pandemic in April, a 14-year-old boy was admitted to the...
