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Heart & Vascular

Role of Teleproctoring in Challenging & Innovative Structural Interventions Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic & Beyond

Teleproctoring enabled real-time remote guidance during a complex structural heart intervention when COVID-19 travel restrictions limited in-person collaboration.

Teleproctoring has implications beyond the current global health crisis to facilitate rapid dissemination and exchange of knowledge to help patients around the globe. In JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions April 2020, we share a case that was performed during the COVID-19 global pandemic that led to travel restrictions designed to limit spread of the virus. We used teleproctoring successfully in performing a challenging and innovative structural heart intervention, using technology which allows real-time, bidirectional audiovisual communication; digital transmission of live videos and direct observation of the operative field by a remote proctor.

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