COVID-19 Related Interventions
Interventions to ensure the safety of patients and healthcare workers
while reducing utilization of healthcare resources in 2020 cohort
included:
- Pre-operative COVID-19 nasal PCR
- Appropriate personal protective equipment use by all hospital staff
- Periprocedural mask use by all patients
- Case-by-case assessment for omission of pre-ablation transesophageal
echocardiography (TEE)
- Post-ablation echocardiographic pericardial evaluation to rule-out
pericardial effusion
- Venous closure of two, unilateral venous access sites to allow
ambulation 2 hours after sheath removal8
- Same day discharge when clinically appropriate
- Staged re-introduction of limited visitors with monitoring for
appropriate PPE