COVID-19: FAQs in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery—A Sequel
As the world and the health care industry continue to adapt to the ever-changing COVID-19 pandemic, so too does our understanding of the virus, its detection, spread, and possible treatments evolve. While congenital cardiac surgery care resumes during this time, important issues centering on the infectious disease and critical care aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic remain at the forefront. These issues and questions related to them are central to our ability to provide care for our patients.1 As a sequel to our previous review, the purpose of this review is to succinctly summarize our current understanding of frequently asked questions regarding COVID-19 with respect to congenital heart disease.2 Some of these questions were included in the previous review, but updated information has become available. Meanwhile, additional questions have become relevant subsequent to the previous review. Our knowledge of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grow rapidly, leading to further clarity and revealing new questions in turn, thus it is critically important that clinician knowledge is updated frequently.
