COVID-19 and electrophysiology procedures—review, reset, reboot!!!

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The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has created an unprecedented health care crisis leading to rationing and diversion of resources. While great focus has been placed on managing COVID-19 patients, clinicians must simultaneously balance caring for patients who are not actively infected. This dichotomy of thinking has become apparent in procedure-laden disciplines including cardiac electrophysiology (EP). Providers have postponed many elective medical procedures with the goal of limiting unnecessary COVID-19 exposures to healthy individuals and to divert available resources to COVID-19 care. Although this shift away from elective procedures has been endorsed by major professional societies, it represents a fundamental change in how physicians provide routine/non-COVID-19-related care [1]. …