Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources for Echocardiography and Vascular Labs
Dear Greater Houston Society of Echo-Vascular members and colleagues. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the provision of echocardiographic services will remain essential, and as you may know, health care personnel can be at significant risk if appropriate measures are not taken. The American Society of Echocardiography has rapidly developed a series of educational resources. The GHSEV would like to assist in disseminating helpful information to protect our patients and echocardiography service providers. Below you will find a helpful list of resources that we will update as frequently as possible. We hope everyone in the Houston Echo-Vascular community stays safe, and don’t hesitate to reach out to GHSEV leadership using our “contact us” page if you have any questions or suggestions about additional information that may be needed.
The GHSEV Board of Directors
Letter from our GHSEV President, Dr. Jose Banchs (03/2020)
The Houston chronicle interactive COVID-19 map/tracker website
Texas Heart Institute: Cardiology In The Time of COVID-19: Troponin Assessment, Telemetry & Echo Lab
American Society of Echocardiography Resources:
- Webinars
- COVID-19 Preparedness for Echo Labs: Insights from the Frontlines
- COVID-19 Pandemic: Your Questions Answered
- Pediatric, Fetal, and Congenital Heart Disease Statement on COVID-19
- Sonographer Statement on COVID-19
- Perioperative/Periprocedural TEE COVID-19 Statement on COVID-19
- POCUS Statement on COVID-19
- Reintroduction of Echocardiography Services in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Your Questions Answered
- Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children in the Setting Of COVID-19
- Statements
- ASE Statement on Protection of Patients and Echocardiography Service Providers During the COVID-19 Outbreak.
- Specific Considerations for Sonographers When Performing Echocardiograms During the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak
- Specific Considerations for Pediatric, Fetal, and Congenital Heart Disease Patients and Echocardiography Service Providers
- Specific Considerations for the Protection of Patients and Echocardiography Service Providers When Performing Perioperative or Periprocedural Transesophageal Echocardiography
- ASE Statement on the Reintroduction of Echocardiography Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- ASE Statement on Adapting Pediatric, Fetal and Congenital Heart Disease Echocardiography Services to the Evolving COVID-19 Pandemic
- Other ASE COVID-19 resources
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Resources:
- Centers for Disease Control (CDC) resources
- Recommended sequences for donning and doffing of personal protective equipment
- World Health Organization resources
Cleaning Recommendations from Ultrasound Manufacturers:
Wellness Resources: