TY - JOUR
T1 - Challenges and the innovations in the care of advanced heart failure patients during COVID-19
AU - Yehya, Amin
AU - Shah, Kevin S.
AU - Mitter, Sumeet S.
AU - Ibrahim, Nasrien E.
AU - Sperry, Brett
AU - Shah, Mahek
AU - Chaudhry, Sunit Preet
AU - Rajagopalan, Navin
AU - Hernandez-Montfort, Jaime
AU - Mohan, Rajeev
AU - Alexander, Kevin M.
AU - Sinha, Shashank
AU - Butler, Javed
AU - Kittleson, Michelle M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2022/1
Y1 - 2022/1
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic underscored our healthcare system’s unpreparedness to manage an unprecedented pandemic. Heart failure (HF) physicians from 14 different academic and private practice centers share their systems’ challenges and innovations to care for patients with HF, heart transplantation, and patients on LVAD support during the COVID-19 pandemic. We discuss measures implemented to alleviate the fear in seeking care, ensure continued optimization of guideline directed medical therapy (GDMT), manage the heart transplant waiting list, continue essential outpatient monitoring of anticoagulation in LVAD patients and surveillance testing post-heart transplant, and prevent physician burnout. This collaborative work can build a foundation for better preparation in the face of future challenges.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic underscored our healthcare system’s unpreparedness to manage an unprecedented pandemic. Heart failure (HF) physicians from 14 different academic and private practice centers share their systems’ challenges and innovations to care for patients with HF, heart transplantation, and patients on LVAD support during the COVID-19 pandemic. We discuss measures implemented to alleviate the fear in seeking care, ensure continued optimization of guideline directed medical therapy (GDMT), manage the heart transplant waiting list, continue essential outpatient monitoring of anticoagulation in LVAD patients and surveillance testing post-heart transplant, and prevent physician burnout. This collaborative work can build a foundation for better preparation in the face of future challenges.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Heart failure
KW - Heart transplantation
KW - LVAD
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U2 - 10.1007/s10741-021-10074-0
DO - 10.1007/s10741-021-10074-0
M3 - Review article
C2 - 33432419
AN - SCOPUS:85099354705
SN - 1382-4147
VL - 27
SP - 235
EP - 238
JO - Heart Failure Reviews
JF - Heart Failure Reviews
IS - 1
ER -