Role of Teleproctoring in Challenging and Innovative Structural Interventions Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Sachin S. Goel, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vasc Ctr; Adam Greenbaum, Emory University; Apurva Patel, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vasc Ctr; Stephen H. Little, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vasc Ctr; Roosha Parikh, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vasc Ctr; Moritz C. Wyler von Ballmoos, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vasc Ctr; Alan B. Lumsden, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vasc Ctr; Michael J. Reardon, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vasc Ctr; Neal S. Kleiman, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vasc Ctr
• Language: English
• Date: 2020-08-24
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Inc.
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © 2020 Published by Elsevier on behalf of the American College of Cardiology Foundation
• License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcin.2020.04.013
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 16
• Start Page: 1945
• End Page: 1948
• Grant/Funding Information: None declared
• Keywords: Science & Technology; transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR); teleproctoring; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Cardiovascular System & Cardiology; Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems; structural heart interventions; Lampoon
• Research Categories: Engineering, Biomedical; Health Sciences, Pathology; Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery

Abstract

Teleproctoring can be used successfully in performing challenging and innovative structural heart interventions using sophisticated technology that allows real-time bidirectional audiovisual communication with digital transmission of live videos and direct observation of the operative field by a remote proctor. The authors share an illustrative case that was performed amid the coronavirus disease-2019 global pandemic that led to travel restrictions to limit spread of the virus. Teleproctoring has future implications beyond the current global health crisis to facilitate rapid dissemination and exchange of knowledge for ultimately helping patients around the globe.