1. Joint 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
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Satish C Govind, HK Chopra, Yadav Bhatt, Ravi R Kasliwal, K Raghu, Rishikesh Shah, G Gnanavelu, Sunil Bohra, Umesh Singh, KM Krishnamoorti, Mohsin Ahmed, R Alagesan, Rajan J Manjuran, G Vijayraghavan, Manish Bansal, S Shanmugasundrum, V Amuthan, P Krisham Raju, Sameer Shrivastava, Anjaneyulu A, Rakesh K. Gupta, Mubarak, CK Ponde, S Veermani, S. K. Kaushik, Stanley Amarasekara, Dipanker Prajapati, Akm Mohibullah, Chandra Mani Adhikari, ST Yavagal, Deewakar Sharma, Debika Chatterjee, G Rajesh, Rahul Mehrotra, Abdullah Al Shafi Majumder, Akm Monwarul Islam, and S K Parashar
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Modalities ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,business.industry ,Statement (logic) ,safety precautions ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,image acquisition ,Comorbidity ,World health ,covid-19 ,RC666-701 ,Medicine ,Image acquisition ,echocardiography ,Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system ,In patient ,Christian ministry ,Medical emergency ,Sri lanka ,business ,joint statement - Abstract
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
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- 2020