Practice for confirmed or suspicious COVID-19 patients
The recommendations for the pre/post AF procedure and catheter laboratory and caring units can be similarly applied from the peri-operative recommendations.62The patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infection should be scheduled as the last case of the day in the dictated laboratory and followed by extensive sterilization of environment or instruments. To minimize the transport of infected patients, elective intubation with highly selective patients in the intensive care unit or in a negative ventilation pressure room should be performed prior to entering the EP laboratory.57