Conclusion
COVID-19 has remarkably affected thousands of lives all over the world.
As a medical community, we have to organize healthcare resources to also
face the usual pathologies that are still threatening our patients. The
cardiac surgical community should reorganize and offer a system to treat
the surgical population safely and efficiently: we should look for
strategies to screen patients properly, to protect health care workers
and to stratify procedures based on surgical priority and postoperative
resource consumption. We need to consider that cardiac pathology could
further endanger patients to suffer from more severe and potentially
fatal COVID-19. Since we are multi-faceted professionals, every aspect
of our life has to adapt to the new normal : wearing face masks,
keeping social distance, practicing strict and frequent hygiene, as well
as redirecting our surgical expertise towards the ones who are more
susceptible to illness.