Open AccessJoint Consensus Statement – Safety Precautions for Doing Echocardiography and Image Acquisition during COVID 19: Indian Academy of Echocardiography, Bangladesh Cardiac Society, Cardiac Society of Nepal, and Sri Lanka College of Cardiology
Author(s) -
Rakesh Gupta,
Susmita Parashar,
HK Chopra,
Sameer Shrivastava,
Satish Govind,
Abdullah Al Shafi Majumder,
Akm Monwarul Islam,
Mohsin Ahmed,
Akm Mohibullah,
Y Bhatt,
Deewakar Sharma,
Chandra Mani Adhikari,
Dipanker Prajapati,
. Mubarak,
Stanley Amarasekara,
G Vijayraghavan,
P. Krishnam Raju,
Anjaneyulu Av,
R Alagesan,
Kasliwal Rr,
Rajan Manjuran,
S Shanmugasundrum,
V Amuthan,
Sushmita Kaushik,
ST Yavagal,
D. Chatterjee,
Raghu Krishnaswamy,
C K Ponde,
Manish Bansal,
G Gnanavelu,
Rahul Mehrotra,
Sunil Bohra,
S Veermani,
Usha Singh,
Gopalan Nair Rajesh,
KM Krishnamoorti,
Rishikesh Shah
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cardiovascular journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2309-6357
pISSN - 2071-0917
DOI - 10.3329/cardio.v13i1.50573
Subject(s) - medicine , modalities , covid-19 , christian ministry , sri lanka , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , health care , disease , south asia , social science , philosophy , ethnology , theology , sociology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , history , economics , economic growth
An echocardiographic investigation is one of the key modalities of diagnosis in patients suffering from COVID 19, especially if they are elderly, have associated comorbid conditions, and pregnant. Hence, it is becoming extremely essential to look into the correct safety precautions, health-care professionals must take while conducting an echo investigation. At the same time, a focused echo examination aimed at correct imaging view acquisition in the shortest possible time is the need of the hour. The decision matrix formulated for conducting an echocardiographic evaluation is based on the presence or absence of cardiological comorbidity vis-a-vis positive or suspected for COVID- 19. The safety measures and image acquisition have been constructed keeping in mind the current safety precautions by the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India.
Cardiovasc. j. 2020; 13(1): 97-101