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cord-294242-amj0ohw3	Li, Jia	Electrophysiology in the time of coronavirus: coping with the great wave.	2020-03-30		.txt	text/plain	3278	214	54	Following an intense nationwide program of public health interventions, local transmission of COVID-19 ceased to be detectable after February 18th allowing the electrophysiology service to resume with a strict testing regime for all patients. Intense public health intervention can permit suppression of local disease transmission allowing resumption of some normal activity. In each of the centres, routine activity of the EP lab was suspended within a week of the first locally diagnosed COVID-19 case in the hospital (table 1). The primary reason for the prompt suspension in each case was the concern that continuing to admit patients for elective procedures would expose patients to the risk of infection from undiagnosed COVID-19 patients already in the hospital. A small number of patients required emergency ablation during the period of restricted activity (table 2, figure 2), but this represented less than 5% of the normal workload of the centres.	./cache/cord-294242-amj0ohw3.txt	./txt/cord-294242-amj0ohw3.txt