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Negative impact of coronavirus on interventional cardiology fellows' training: Let's limit collateral damage of the pandemic
Author(s) -
Tarantini Giuseppe,
Nai Fovino Luca
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/ccd.29479
Subject(s) - medicine , pandemic , interventional cardiology , covid-19 , collateral damage , cardiology , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , emergency medicine , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , criminology , sociology , outbreak
Key Points Coronavirus disease pandemic has caused a dramatic reduction of elective and urgent interventional cardiology procedures, with a negative impact on training of interventional cardiology fellows. This study showed that 95% of interventional cardiology fellows during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic believe that their training would be moderately or severely impacted by the health crisis. Interventional cardiology programs need to reorganize in order to ensure safe pathways for both urgent and elective cases, primarily for patients' care but also to grant an adequate caseload for trainees.