Forced Choices: Ethical Challenges in Cardiology During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Keywords: COVID-19; decision making; heart failure; heart transplantation; medical ethics; pandemics; resource allocation EN COVID-19 decision making heart failure heart transplantation medical ethics pandemics resource allocation 194 196 3 07/23/20 20200721 NES 200721 The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has dramatically changed the healthcare landscape. Cardiologists must tell some patients who would normally be evaluated in-person to stay home; we must also implore some fearful patients to seek care.[2] The importance of the latter is illustrated by concerning observations of underpresentation of critical cardiovascular diseases like acute coronary syndrome. [Extracted from the article]