Cardiac operations and interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a decline in hospitalizations for non-COVID-19-related conditions. We explored the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cardiac operations and interventions undertaken in England.

Methods and results

An administrative database covering hospital activity for England, the Health Episodes Statistics, was used to assess a total of 286 697 hospitalizations for cardiac operations and interventions, as well as 227 257 hospitalizations for myocardial infarction (MI) and 453 799 for heart failure (HF) from 7 January 2019 to 26 July 2020. Over the 3 months of 'lockdown', total numbers and mean reductions in weekly rates [n (-%)], compared with the same time period in 2019, were: coronary artery bypass grafting [-2507 (-64%)]; percutaneous coronary i

SUBMITTER: Leyva F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8083650 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature