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cord-285232-0p27ez9i	Boriani, Giuseppe	Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the clinical activities related to arrhythmias and electrophysiology in Italy: results of a survey promoted by AIAC (Italian Association of Arrhythmology and Cardiac Pacing)	2020-09-05		.txt	text/plain	5849	217	36	The questionnaire consisted of 18 questions: five of them focused on the characteristics of the participating centre (i.e. involvement of the centres and of the physicians in the management of suspected and confirmed patients with COVID-19, volume of annual CIEDs implantations and ablation procedures); seven of them focused on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the number of CIED implantations and ablation procedures performed in both elective and emergency settings, and on the number of cases of acute pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) in emergency setting; two of them focused on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the management of remote monitoring (RM) of CIEDs; the remaining four were focused on the possible organizational strategies for post-COVID-19 recovery phase. Based on the reported procedure volumes, we estimated that, during the two months March-April 2020 in the 84 centres that participated in the survey, globally about 2200 fewer CIEDs had been implanted and about 960 fewer ablations had been performed (in both elective and emergency settings) compared to the same period of the previous year.	./cache/cord-285232-0p27ez9i.txt	./txt/cord-285232-0p27ez9i.txt