Management strategy of an inpatient requiring urgent coronary artery revascularisation with prolonged SARS-CoV-2 shedding

Abstract

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which originated in China, is the cause of the global pandemic Coronavirus Disease 19 (Covid-19). To date, there is no widely available vaccine or treatment, hence containment strategies are currently centred around measures ameliorating human transmission via social distancing and quarantine. Due to the magnitude of the pandemic, elective operative work had ceased within cardiac surgery at our institution and strategies adapted