COVID-19 Cardiac Transplant Resources

WEBINAR EPISODE #4: Heart Transplantation in a Viral Pandemic

On-demand Recording of the May 5th webinar can be found here.
- David D’Alessandro, MD / Surgical Director, Heart Transplantation and Ventricular Assist Devices / Massachusetts General Hospital
- Jennifer A. Cowger, MD MS / Medical Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support Program & Co-Director, Medical Cardiac Intensive Care Unit / Henry Ford Hospitals
- Edward Staples, MD / Retired Surgical Director, Heart and Lung Transplant Program / UF Health Shands Hospital
- Eric Adler, MD FACC / Professor of Medicine, University of California School of Medicine & Director, Cardiac Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support / UC San Diego Health

WEBINAR EPISODE #3: Heart Transplantation in a Viral Pandemic

On-demand Recording of the April 22nd webinar can be found here.
Summary Notes of the presentations can be found here.
- Andreas Zuckermann, MD / Director, Cardiac Transplantation, Medical University of Vienna – AKH Vienna, Austria
- Cristiano Amarelli, MD / Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplants, Monaldi, A.O. dei Colli, Naples, Italy
- Rajamiyer Venkateswaran, MD FRCS-CTh / Consultant Cardiac Surgery & Transplantation / Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK
- Juan Bustamante-Munguira, MD PhD MPH / Chief, Cardiac Surgery / Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valladolid, Spain

WEBINAR EPISODE #2: Heart Transplantation in a Viral Pandemic

On-demand Recording of the April 15th webinar can be found here.
Summary Notes of the presentations can be found here.
- Jeffrey Teuteberg, MD / Section Chief, Heart Failure Cardiac Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support / Stanford University
- Ann Woolley, MD / Associate Clinical Director, Solid Organ Transplant Infectious Diseases / Brigham & Women’s Hospital
- Juan-Miguel Gil-Jaurena, MD / Chief, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery / Hospital Gregorio Marañón
- Luciano Potena, MD / Medical Director, Heart Transplant Program / Bologna University Hospital

WEBINAR EPISODE #1: Heart Transplantation in a Viral Pandemic

On-demand Recording of the April 7th webinar can be found here.
Summary Notes of the presentations can be found here.
- Chetan Patel, MD / Medical Director, Cardiac Transplant Program, Duke University
- Andreas Zuckermann, MD / Director, Cardiac Transplantation, Medical University of Vienna – AKH Vienna
- Scott Silvestry, MD / Surgical Director, Thoracic Transplant Programs, AdventHealth Orlando
- David Klassen, MD / Chief Medical Officer, UNOS

Other COVID-19 Resource Pages

ISHLT COVID-19 Resources

International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation resources on the COVID-19 outbreak.

ISHLT Connect Member Forums

Member discussion forums on COVID-19 subjects

JHLT COVID-19 Publications

A specific subsite on the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation for COVID-19 publications.

ASTS COVID-19 Resources

Resources compiled by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.

UNOS: COVID-19 Resources

News and updates from the United Network for Organ Sharing on COVID-19

STS COVID-19 Resources

Resources and links from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Other Webinars and Events

Slides for ISHLTv COVID-19 Challenges in Advanced Heart and Lung Disease

29 April 2020

Clinical presentation, current epidemiology, therapeutic options, critical care, support devices and donor management will be included among the aspects of patient care explored in this session.

COVID-19: Organ Donation and Transplant Town Hall

13 April 2020

Collaborative webinar from transplant organizations from around the world to create an educational forum on transplantation in the COVID-19 emergency.

STS Weekly Webinar Series

Weekly from 9 April 2020

Weekly webinar series on the impact of COVID-19 on the cardiothoracic surgery community

COVID-19: Organ Donation and Transplant Town Hall

23 March 2020

Collaborative webinar from transplant organizations from around the world to create an educational forum on transplantation in the COVID-19 emergency.

Policy and Guidance Updates

ASTS Guidance Documents

28 April 2020 (Update) – Guidance documents on Capacity & Testing, PPE, Organ Retrieval for organ transplantation.

ISHLT Guidance Document

18 April 2020 (Update) – Guidance document regarding SARS CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 is a living guidance document from an international workgroup.

OPTN Policy Change for COVID-19 Emergency

17 March 2020 – Policy change description for clinical data requirements on waitlist transplant candidates during the COVID-19 Emergency.

CMS Recommendations for Determining Elective Surgeries

15 March 2020 – Tiered framework proposed by CMS on 15 March 2020 for defining elective vs essential procedures. Transplants defined as Tier 3b under this framework.